SALES UPDATE FROM WALLETS MARTS 17th & 18th of FEBRUARY

MONDAY 17THFEBRUARY 2014

 

OTM & STORE CATTLE SALE

Wallets Marts Castle Douglas Limited sold 434 Store

Cattle and 58 OTM cattle at their fortnightly sale on Monday. With more cattle forward more buyers were also present resulting in an animated demand

throughout. Whilst stronger cattle still looked va lue for money, yearling stirks were most keenly bid for.

A pen of outstanding Limousin bullocks from GW Taylor, Disdow topped the sale at £1340 selling to W Purdon &

Partners, Stravenhouse, Carluke. A pen of Limousins from the same home also topped the heifer sectionat

£1280. Top price per kilo was 293.2p paid to M & G Barr, Meikle Kirkland for a pair of Charolais cross bullocks

which sold to Mr David Carins, Hexham. Heifers topped out at 268.3p per kilo for a pen of six Charola

is heifers from Messrs Whiteford, Burnfoot, Sanquhar selling to M Telford, Valleyview. A feature of the sale was the

consignment of Charolais heifers from Burnfoot which topped at £880 and averaged £830.50 or 243.4p per kilo.

Overall averages were 236.72p for bullocks (226.6plast year) and 222.82p for heifers (208.5p last year.)

58 OTM cattle were forward to a larger ringside of

buyers. Clean cattle sold to 211p for an Angus Heifer from

Balcraig Moor, followed at 199p for a South Devon from Garrarie. Top price per head of £1169 for a Simmental

Heifer from Kenmure, Kirkcowan. Cows sold to 166p f

or a Limousin from Valleyview, followed at 162p for a Simmental from Palmallet. Top price per head of 1308 for a Limousin from Waterside, followed at £1291

for aSouth Devon from Garrarie.

 

Limousin Bullocks

Disdow £1340; Fagra £1240; Flathill £1140; Redfield

£1130; Killochy £1100; Tregallon £1085; Slatehouse

£1030;

Craigton £995; Auchenleck £980; Balcraig Moor £935;

Annabaglish £895; Meikle Kirkland £890; Boghouse £865

 

Simmental Bullocks

Craigton £1125; Garrarie £1120; Trowdale £1070; Ken

mure, Kirkcowan £940; Potterland £905; Corra £900;

Culdoach £840; High Borgue £815

 

 

Blonde Bullocks

Maryfield £805

 

British Blue

Flathill £1220; Auchenleck £1100

 

Charolais Bullocks

Kenmure, Kirkcowan £1100; Trowdale £1070; Killochy

£1050; Corra £1045; Meikle Kirkland £985; Cotland £910;

Knocksheen £890; Craigton £845; Upper Barr £840

 

Aberdeen Angus Bullocks

Disdow £1290; Trowdale £1120; Balcraig Moor £1110;

Slatehouse £1060; Auchenleck £1015

 

Continental Bullocks

Ross £1120

Aberdeen Angus Heifers

 

Garrarie £975; Balcraig Moor £840; Trowdale £830; Corra £790; Culdoach £755