ANNUAL SHOW & SALE OF HALF BRED EWES & SHEARLINGS
Sale commences 10.30am
Entries close Tues 25 Aug
Annual Show and sale of half bred ewes & shearlings!
What a day trading here at UAM with 2000 breeding sheep.
The shearlings to an average of £278
The breeding ewes to an average of £239
Ewes up £16 on the year
Shearlings up £25 up on the year
Ben Cresswell in the trusty hands of judging
Placing champion pen to JS & KM Wilson – high house with a lovely pen of Texel shearlings to £370 sold to the judge.
Reserve champion was Geoff Wood -High Townend for a pen of mule shearlings sold to £350 purchased by Matty Forrester.
Plenty of buzz around the ring today with fresh faces with some farmers falling short of numbers!
💥47 pens of sheep over £300💥
Leading averages on ewes today-
F & S A Edmondon 70 @ £261
I Edmondson 85 @ £255
J shephard & son 124 @ £235
Leading shearling averages-
Geoff wood 22 @ £325
L Irving 12 @ £320
A R Edmondon 72 @ £306
P & A Fell 112 @ £304
R & F towers 41 @ £303
JS & KM Wilson 104 @ £302
T Hird 30 @ £299
M & YS barker 140 @ £292
Messers Whitaker 118 @ £290
Continental shearlings
J S & K M Wilson (tex)-£370
L Irving (Tex)- £370
P & A Fell (tex)-£350/£340
J S & K M Wilson (Tex)-£330
J S & K M Wilson (chev/m)-£300 x 2
L Irving (Tex)-£300