WALLETS MARTS CASTLE DOUGLAS LIMITED
MONDAY 1ST AUGUST 2016
STORE CATTLE, OTM CATTLE
Wallets Marts Castle Douglas Ltd held their special 160th Anniversary Show and Sale of Store Cattle at Castle Douglas on Monday 1st August. This has always been one of the feature sales at Castle Douglas and with this being Wallets 160th year in business it was a fitting event to mark this milestone. At the pre-sale show the judge Mr Bruce Watt, Cairntack found the overall champion with a Limousin bullock from Messrs Sharp, Barscarrow, Sandhead. Scaling 608kg in made £1290 to W Purdon & Partners, Straven House. Champion single heifer came from Messrs Lockhart, Culdoach whose Charolais entry weighed 428kgs and made £1055 to Tom Clark, Westmuir. Culdoach also had the champion pen of 4 cattle with a pen of 446kgs Charolais bullocks which sold for £1050 to Bruce Watt, Cairntack. Cattle in general were well grazed and in great bloom with a larger percentage of heavier cattle forward. Outwith the show cattle bullocks topped at £1370 for the first beast through the ring from Messrs T Robb, Trolane, Dalry. Top price per kg in the bullock section was 266.9p paid to Glenlee Farms, Shiel for a pen of Limousins. In the heifer section the top price of £1235 was paid to R Rankine, Mains of Cairnbrock for a Simmental cross. Top price per kg was 272.2p paid to M & G Barr, Meikle Kirkland for a pen of Charolais crosses. With 200 more cattle sold than the same sale last year overall average was down £38 on the year to level at £928.84. 550 bullocks sold to average £217.95p per kg or £968.21 at 444 kgs with 247 heifers averaging 209.6p or £841.19 at 401 kgs.
In the OTM ring all classes of cattle traded dearer on the previous sale. Cows topped at 144p or £981.40 off Culnaightrie whilst bulls sold to 164p off Glenturk. Overall sale average was 118.55p.
Steers
Aberdeen Angus
£1325 Balcraig Moor; £1180 Trolane; £1180 Redbank; £1160 Garrarie
Limousin
£1290 Barscarrow
Simmental
£1370 Trolane; £1150 Palmallet
Charolais
£1250 Glentoo; £1130 Carleton; £1110 Culdoach
Saler
£1040 Culdoach
Hereford
£985 High Barley; £945 Mayhaar
Heifers
Aberdeen Angus
£1010 Glentoo
Limousin
£1180 Glenhowl; £1080 Balcraig Moor
Simmental
£1235 Mains of Cairnbrock; £1030 Borgue House
Charolais
£1075 Meikle Kirkland; £1055 Culdoach; £1030 High Glenjorrie; £1030 Borgue House
Hereford
£990 Kiltersan
OTM
Cows
£981.40 Culnaightrie; £893.42 Meikle Cloak; £904 Airds of Balcary; £878.80 Mains of Cairnbrock; £860 Meikle Larbrax
Steers
£851.20 Langbarns
Bulls
£1000.40 Glenturk; £856.52 Wellhill
