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■ TOP (lopi due to run in the World Sheep Oog Trials in Cumbria in September will be pill Ihroiigb their paces by tbeir re­ nowned handlers in a warm-iip charity trial in Craven this month. A total of HO (logfi from all over the UK, many of which will be competing on the


trial that the entries limit was reached within three days.


world stage, are set to compete in an open charity trial at Newton Hall Farm, Bank Newton, Oargrave, on Thursday, May 19th. .Spectators will be welcome. .Such was the interest in the inaugural


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fiirmstock sales manager and auctioneer Ted Odgen said: “The monthly showcase for the best butchers animals from Craven saw flying trade in all departments, with good aver­ ages achieved throughout. No- tahly, 39 pens of hoggs .sold for 111 exce.ss of £100 - the dearest trade to date this .season.”


.sheep forward sold to an over­ all average of 206.51p/kg, or £83.47 per head. Skipton Auction Mart’s


297.4p/kg, or £124 per head, with an overall average of 288.5p/kg. In total, the 2,211 prime


Burrows’s retail butcher cus­ tomers. .Spring lambs .sold to a top of


RED Rose shov/man Jimmy Baines, v/ho farms in both Clit- heroe and Trawden, sent out the prime cattle victor for the second month in succession - and the umpteenth time in to­ tal - at .Skipton Auctif>n Mart’s April prime shov/s and sales. I lis latest champion, a 490kg


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RICHARD Lucas took the champion­ ship at Gisburn’s monthly Cogent pedi­ gree sale with a very smart Landino Park Talent heifer from his Mcinspridc herd. Giving 32 litres, she sold for £2,300 to veteran cattle breeder J. J. Crosier to


reserve champion with an Emerald Acres Baxter heifer out of two genera­ tions of VG breeding. She sold to Doug Wallbank, of Higher Walton, for £2,180. Heplso paid the same price for the third prize heifer from Colin Singleton. She was a Den-K-Marshall daughter, again out of two generations of VG breeding and giving 30kg.


also from the Whytil herd and giving an impressive 33kgs, sold at £2,050 to Tom Shuttleworth, of Rylstone. Other vendors in the top prizes were W. G. Cornthwaite, of Claughton, with a Bax­ ter heifer selling at £1,940 to Messrs. Redmayne, of Samlesbury. In the regu­ lar milkers trade was brisk, with second quality heifers at least £200 up on the previous week. In the in-calf section Messrs Wens-


A Heather Holme Velvet heifer,


ley, of Great Plumpton, had top price at £1,700. Thirty-one new calved heifers, six new calved cows, five in-calf heifers and a single heifer calf were forward. Auctioneers were Richard Turner and


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TH E best E a ster show for some years at Clithe- roe Auction Mart saw a total clearance o f lambs, with good tight skinned lambs breaking the £3 per kg barrier and the vast majority around 265-


went to £126 per head (311ppkg) and Continentals to £129 (296ppkg). Judge Mr Tom Turner,


270ppkg. Top prices for Suffolks


Fine turnout at Easter sale


of Continental lambs at the show, sponsored by Dugdale Nutrition. Auctioneer, Jo Worthing­


ton commented: “The fan­ tastic trade gave a great start to the new season which may now be built on. There was also roaring trade for 400 prime hoggs forward, even though the national trend has been slacker. “Heavier sorts were push­


of Turners Butchers Stall at Darwen Market, had a busy task, with more than SO spring lambs forward. He awarded top prize for the best single lamb to J. Whal­ ley and Sons, of Darwen; the best pair of Suffolk/ Down lambs went to A. & P. Fletcher, of Heywood; and J. P. Bradley, of Altham, won the accolade for the best pair


ing to the £110 mark and better types were around 220ppkg. Some d ec en t pens of horned hoggs were also pleasing at around 200ppkg.” More than 225 cast ewes


forward were yet again very much in demand, with many ewes now into three figures. Best Continental ewes were around £170, medium sized of any breed around £90 and swales were into the £60s.


PRIME LAMB: winner of the best single lamb award with vendor Mr Whalley (left) and show judge Tom Turner.


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was £2,700 for a three-week calved heifer giving 33 litres, chosen as first prize by judge Peter Dakin and bought by Tom Pickup, ofTurton. The first prize


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