STORE CATTLE REPORT
MONDAY, 26th OCTOBER ~ Auctioneer: Roger Waters

Postal strike not helping to spread the word, nevertheless three hundred plus cattle on offer, either on or off the catalogue and a ringful of buyers all looking for the best.

CONTINENTAL CROSS STEERS & HEIFERS ~ 12/18 MONTHS
Ben Bayne’s homebred suckler bred steers and heifers
take the eye and the price just not enough of them -
Limousin cross heifers, 17 mos £847, and steers, 17 mos £800
G Brain’s Purebred Limousin steers, 18 mos £860, heifers £750
FS Major & Son’s Belgian Blue x Friesian steer, 18 mos £715,
D Hobbs & Son’s Simmental cross steer, 18 mos £655,
MJ & ML McCubbine’s Simmental x Friesian steer, 18 mos £697,
FP Russell Farms’ Limousin cross steers, 17/18 mos £655 and heifers £627,
M & R Sherwood’s Limousin steers,12 mos £645 and heifers, 12/15 mos £537

ABERDEEN ANGUS ~ PUREBRED & CROSSBRED
Angus cattle out in numbers and attract keen competition for all lots on offer.
Ben Bayne’s consignment stars for the second time - Aberdeen Angus x Continental steers, 18 mos £847 and heifers £630
M Grove’s Angus x Friesian steer, 25 mos £780,
D Lingham’s Angus cross steers, 16 mos £775 and heifers £555,
FP Russell Farms’s Angus x Continental steers, 18 mos £722 and heifers £632,
A Lavender’s Angus cross steers, 20 mos £722,
M Whapham’s Angus x Limousin/Friesian steers, 15 mos £660,
MJ & ML McCubbine’s Angus cross heifer, 20 mos £625,
JJS Farmer’s Angus x Belgian Blue/Friesian steer, 8 mos £585,
R Dick’s Purebred Angus bull, 7 mos £425

OTHER NATIVE BRED CATTLE OF NOTE
A Lavender’s Hereford cross steer, 22 mos £725,
MJ & ML McCubbine’s Hereford cross heifer, 19 mos £635 and steers,
15 mos £627, D Fieldwick’s Sussex cross steers, 10 mos £485,
R Dick’s Purebred Hereford bull, 7 mos £425

STORES TWO YEARS AND OVER
M Whapham’s Three Quarter bred Limousin steers, 26 mos £860,
S Luckin’s Charolais cross steer, 23 mos £850,
M Grove’s Belgian Blue x Friesian steers, 23 mos £750
and Limousin x Friesian steers, 23 mos £735,
P Gurney’s Belgian Blue cross heifer, 25 mos £722

Not many FRIESIAN STEERS best of the bunch
LM Morgan’s 12/13 mos £350
and not forgetting
Richard Wakeham Dawson’s Purebred Charolais still entire,
not quite 5 months £582