DARLINGTON & STOCKTON TIMES FARMING dst.co.uk/farming FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 65 Prices at the special livestock sales

HAWES. – Sat. Fwd: 3,208 sheep at cow, E Heslop, Colwell Demesne, Dumblar Rigg; Suff X to £65 Piatroon; Melton Mowbray. Hollins Farm. Blue-faced Leics: £300, annual special show & sale of £1,090. Blonde D’Aquitaine Society Texel X to £57.40 Healey Mill; Mule to Prizes. – 1 David & Mary Brown, £280 Green Farm; £260 Waterhouses; Swaledale gimmer lambs & shearlings. Cup: A Scott, Townfoot, Blonde X Lim- £55 The Shieling; Meatlink to £49; Marske, £73; 2 & 3 Robert Wallis & £260, £220 Hollins Farm; £250 Corner Gimmer lambs to £170 av £52.13; gim- ousin steer, £920. Cheviot & Cheviot X to £48 Healey Sons, Marske, £76 £75. Sale av £62. Cottage. Char: £240 Slakes Farm. Bel- mer shlgs to £122 av £92.79. Judges: J Prize. – Best 4 Char X steers: 1 Flot- Farm; Scottish Blackface to £38.50 The Prices. – R Hunter £82; J Pearson & tex: £210 Crossfell House. Thorpe, Hawes, & J Raper, Galphay terton £895; 2 Rusheylaw £950. Best Brigg & Burnbank. Sons £71; H&EM Tiplady £71(2), £64; ST JOHN’S CHAPEL. – Tues. Fwd: (Swaledale gimmer lambs). Char X steer: 1 Rusheylaw £1,100; 2 LAZONBY. – Wed of last week. Fwd: WN Avison & Son £70; RW Wallis & 37 aged rams & 330 shearlings at Prizes. – 1 & White Hart Hotel, Flotterton £890; 3 Flotterton £880. Best 1,274 sheep at annual show & sale of Sons £70, £67; FW Lawson £64(2); Swaledale Sheep Breeders’ Associa- Hawes, Challenge Trophy NJ Bland, Char X hfr: 1 Colwell Demesne £1,090; store sheep. Judge: D Stobart, Cracrop. Spout House Farms £64; GH&J Wallis tion D district ram sale. Av aged rams Shottle, £170; 2 JH&J Bland, Crowden, 2 Rusheylaw £925; 3 Rusheylaw £915. Prizes. – Swale: 1 PE Staley, Broad- & Son £63, £61; RL&CM Tuer £62; W £285.67 (+£57.79 for 3 less sold) & £80; 3 JC Wade & Son, Linton, £96. Best BAX steer: 1 Townfoot £920; 2 mea; 2 TD&M Moore, Softley; 3 PE Stanger £60; BG Chandler £60; TW shlgs £576.06 (+ £140.58 for 34 more Prices. – Lambs: NJ Bland £170, Preston Tilery £710; 3 Whitelees £935. Staley, Broadmea. Mule: 1 J Nattrass, Atkinson & Son £59; G Lambert £58. sold). £72, £56; G Harker & Son £107, £62; Best BAX hfr: 1,2&3 Townfoot £900, Shield Hill Top; 2 H H&A Richardson, Masham: MJ Croft £69, £65, £62. Cont: Prizes. – Ram 3 years & up, large JR Rukin £100, £74, £65, £55; JC £890, £745. Best Brit Blue X steer: 1&2 Foul Lonning; 3 JM Thompson, Town Mrs S Lawson £96, £91, £84; SE breeders: 1 & champion J Nattrass, Wade & Son £96, £68, £60, £55; L Woodhouse £880, £930. Best Brit Blue Foot. Cont X & Suff: 1 Pickthall, The Scrope £70, £60, £59(2); FW Lawson Shield Hill Top, £700 to MJ Hodgson; 2 Raine & Sons £91, £70, £55; B Thorn- X hfr: 1 Preston Tilery £900; 2&3 Wood- Mains; 2 P Stobart, Scalehouse Farm; £62; GM Firby £59; GK Hird & Sons TOP TUP: highest-priced W&HI Watson, Sanders Close, £280 to borrow £90, £73, £70, £55; MM&CL house £980, £1,020. Best AAX steer: 3 T Nattrass, Kentmere. £57; W Stanger £55. Mule ewes in Swaledale at St John’s show AH Barker; 3 GA&JM Maw, Winter- Whitehead £87, £67; WH Harker £84; 1,2&3 Old Town £1,065, £1,050, £665. Prices. – Texel £57 Scalehouse lamb: DA Hull £116. Mule shlgs in shield, £950 to MJ Hodgson. Small JH&J Bland £80; JG Brunton £79; Prices – Cattle 23-30 m-o: Char X Farm; £55.50 Fieldgarth; £51 Townfoot; lamb: DA Hull £82. Suff X ewes in lamb: Prices. – Aged: £400(2) Hutchinson, breeders: 1 T Nattrass, Kentmere, £90 B&GV Mudd £78; WM Iveson £76, £75, steers to £935 Rugley Walls; hfr to £49 Low Houses; £47.50 Howburn; DA Hull £98. Rams. – Texel shlgs: LG Redgate. Shlg rams: £3,000 Lord, to M&D Potter; 2 A Wood, Skelgill, £150 £60; JT Dixon & Son £76, £59(2); P £760 Wagtail; Lim X steers to ££930 £47 Lintley; £46,50 Kentmere; £45 Plews & Son 380, 260gns; E Wilson Hewgill; £700, £500, £400 Stott, Laund to A&CT Scott. Ram 2 years: 1 res Hallam £75, £60; J Dixon & Sons £75, Old Deanham; hfrs to £990 Old Dean- Home Farm (Wheatley). Suff: £53 The 350, 300, 280gns; EW Fox 310, Farm; £500, £400(3) Fog Close. Ram champion A&J Bousfield, Green Hills, £58, £56; JS Cloughton £75, £56; K&G ham; Brit Blue X hfrs to ££780 Hack- Mains; £46 Lintley. Mule: £49, £40.50 280gns; B&A Myers & Daughters lambs: £2,000, £1,000, £750 Lord, £400 to ER Toppin & Sons; 2 J Lee & Whitehead £74, £70, £60, £57; JR&LA ford; BAX steers to £935 Whitelees; Black House; £48 Foul Lonning; £48 240gns; Mrs S Lawson 180gns. Texel 2- Hewgill; £1,500, £600 James, Midtod- Sons, Morley Hill, n/s; 3A&J Bousfield, Capstick £74; JJ&M Pickering £74; hfrs to £780 Hepple Whitefield; AAX Shield Hill Top; £47 Sandwick Farm; shr: GK Hird & Sons 200gns. Char hills; £1,300 Hutchinson, Redgate; Green Hills, £250 to JM Cottrill. Shlg Walburn Hall £73, £69; JR&A Blades steers to £760 East Rackwood. Cattle £45.50 Howburn; £44.50, Kentmere; shlgs: E Wilson 300, 215gns. Suff £900, 800, £850 Little, Cannerheugh; ram (large breeders): 1 & champion £73; Akrigg & Betton £73; MR&CJ 17-22 m-o: Char X steers to £1,155 Hay £44 Town Head (Barker); £43 Town- shlgs: K Moore 300gns. Suff ram £520 Wharton, Croftstyle; £500 Dent, CC&RG Martin, Shittlehopeside, £3,000 Rukin £72, £65, £58, £57; D&DR Alder- A Park; hfrs to £940 Hillcrest Cottage; foot; £40 Low Houses. Beltex: £42.50, lambs: H Avison 200, 190gns. Blue- Greenriggs; £500 Old Parks. to DA Robinson; 2 & res champion MW son £72, £71, £63; CR Thornborrow Lim X steers to £960 Hay A Park; hfrs £39.50 Home Farm (Wheatley). Hamp- faced Leics lambs: A Bainbridge 130, PENRITH. – Tues. Annual show & Skidmore, Wolf Cleugh, £2,000 to W £71; MR Ewbank £71; RW Clarkson & to £885 Crowhall; Brit Blue X steers to shire: £35 Sandwick Farm. Swale: £34 120gns. Rearing calves. – BB bulls: sale of Swaledale rams, Blue-faced Nattrass; 3 JR Dalton, South Welhope, Son £71, £58; REC Simpson & Sons £730 White House; Simm X steer to Arngill House; £30.50, £29 Broadmea; £420 D&S Spence av £368; hfrs: £330 Leicester, Cheviot, Suffolk & Continental n/s. Small breeders: 1 A Watson, £70; D&M Brown £70; M Barker Farms £845 Hay A Park; AAX steer to £900 £29 Softley; £28 Foul Lonning. JH Simpson & Co av £274; Lim bulls: Rams. Judge: D Shepherd, Glebelands. Sanders Close, £800 to Weardale Es- £70; EW Atkinson £70, £67, £61; S Gallowhill; AAX hfrs to £610 East Rack- Sat. – Fwd: 3,024 Swaledale ewes, £382 F&S Iveson av £297; hfrs £322 FS Prizes. – Aged Swale ram: 1 cham- tates; 2 R Collinson, West Field Farm, Reynoldson & Son £69, £60; J Allison wood; AA (Pure) steers to £1,065 Old shearlings & gimmer lambs at annual Sturrock & Sons av £226; AA bulls pion & Fred Scott Memorial Cup M £2,900 to N&J Taylor; 3 W Wearmouth & & Sons £69, £64, £55; A&JA Iveson Town; hfrs to £695 Old Town; South sale. Overall av £62.08. Swale ewes: £305 JH Simpson & Co av £229; Simm Bousfield, Hegdale, £400 to C Lowis, Son, Rosehill, n/s Shlg with best confor- £68; SA Raine £66; BR Lawson & Son Devon (Pure) steers to £840 The £135, £95(2) Off Green Castle (Thomp- bulls: £260 JA Dent & Sons; hfrs: £270 Waterside House; 2 Bindloss, Shap mation: 1 W Watson, Sanders Close, £66, £59; SL Pratt £64; TW Cowperth- Heigh; hfrs to £600 The Heigh; Herefd son); £90 Shield Hill Top; £90, £82 Low Rand Grange Farm av £187; BW bulls: Abbey, £240 to JF&CN Benson, Skel- £2,000 to WA,M&CA Watson; 2 Huddle- waite £64; TW Hutchinson £62; P Ew- X steers to £770 Hay A Park. Cattle 11- Crossgill, £89 Hill Farm; £86(2) Winter- £122 WT Elstob & Son av £75. Stirks. – with Fold. Shlng Swale ram: 1 & re- stone, Round Meadows, £1,150 to WA bank £61; R Metcalfe £60, £55; GJ&JM 16 m-o: Char X steers to £1,010 shields; £85 Ashgill; £84 Swindale. BB bulls: E Hird & Son £440; hfrs: E serve champion H Harrison, Haw Hodgson; 3 T Hall & Son, The Raw, Scarr £58; RS Harker £56. Rusheylaw; hfrs to £1,025 Rusheylaw; Swale gimmer shlgs: £83, £78(2), £74 Hird & Son £375; BW bulls: GW Leg- Bank, £300 to DG&DM Benson, High £1,800 to W&AR Parker. Best group of Also fwd. – Prize show for Lim X steers to £990 Crowhall; hfrs to Hill Farm; £78 Townfoot; £77 Bertram gott £205. Row; 2 A Slack, Stoneriggs, £260, to three rams: 1 JR Dalton, South Wel- Swaledale gimmer shlgs. Judges: J £870 Thornton Tower; Brit Blue X steers Hill; £77, £75 Dyke Nook; £75 Farney PENRITH. – Thurs of last week. Fwd: Smith & Shepherd, Glebelands. hope; 2 S&K Emmott, Whitelees; 3 Thorpe, Hawes, & J Raper. to £930 Woodhouse; hfrs to £1,020 Shields; £75, £74 Shankfield Head. 5,550 uncrossed & crossed Swaledale Prices. – Lambs. – Suff: £530, £450 CC&RG Martin, Shittlehopeside. Prizes. – 1 & Tunstall Tractor Trophy, Woodhouse; BAX steers to £975 Town- Swale gimmer lambs: £58(2) Greenley and Herdwick Ewes, shlgs & gimmer Romanvale. Texel: £420, £290, £270, Prices. – Shlg rams: £4,000, £1,400 Galphay D&M Brown, Marske, £94; 2 G foot; hfrs to £890 Townfoot; Simm X Cleugh; £56 Close House; £51 Low lambs at annual sale. Plus show of £250 Park View; £220 Manor Farm East Unthank Farm; £3,600, £3,300, Calvert & Sons, Keld, £106; 3 G Calvert steers to £745 Hepple Whitefield; hfrs Crossgill; £48, £43 Swindale; £40 Dyke draught Swaledale ewes. Judge: J Lord, (Marrs). Blue-faced Leics: £420, £270, £2,800, £1,900, £1,650, £1,300, £1,000 & Sons, £120. Prices. – Shlgs: EW to £595 Low Bishopton; AA (Pure) Nook, Townfoot. Low Dowgill. Champion pair: Messrs £200 Greenhow; £350, £320 Hewgill Wolf Hills; £3,000 Shittlehopeside; Atkinson £122; G Calvert & Sons £120, steers to £640 Old Town; AAX hfr to Also fwd. – Annual show & sale of Folder, Wesco, £190 to the judge. House. Aged ram. – Texel: £450, £440, £2,900, £2,000 Billing Shield; £2,800, £106, £100, £92 £90; JA Sunter £110, £740 North Crane; South Devon (Pure) Swaledale rams, Blue-faced Leicester Champion pen of 10: Messrs Lightfoot, £260 Park View; £295 Green Farm; £1,100 South Welhope; £2,700 Roach- £90; JB Harker & Sons, £110, £108; DW steers to £795 The Heigh; hfrs to £650 ram & females & Continental rams. Gillside, £135 to the judge. Prizes. – Pair £290 Hole Farm (Mark). Swale: £400, burn Farm; £2,400 Hargill House; £2,200 Calvert & Co £104, £100, £98, £96, £94, The Heigh; Herefd X steers to £635 Judges: FA Fothergill, Nateby of Swaledale ewes: 1 Folder, Wesco; 2 £240 Hegdale; £350 Low Mill (Fleming Asholme Farm; £2,200 Morley Hill; £92, £90(2), £82, £80; AH Birbeck £95; Hesleyside Parks. Cattle up to 10 m-o: (Swaledale); GP Taylor, Great Asby EJ&RJ Wear, Howe Green; 3 M Ridley, & Wilson); £310, £240 Shap Abbey; £2,000, £1,100 Wolf Cleugh; £2,000, D&M Brown £94, £82; SL Pratt £90; Char X steers to £640 Quickening Cote (Blue-faced Leicesters). Champion & Haltcliffe. Pen of 10 Swale ewes: 1 Light- £240 High Croft; £240 Lunesdale £1,500, £1000 Sanders Close; £1,900 AD&P Coates £90, £82; C&K Ellis £88, (JWR); hfrs to £655 Quickening Cote the N&CL McNally Trophy: F&M foot, Gillside; 2 WH Brass, Low Row; 3 House. Cheviot: £360(2) Greenbank Wintershields; £1,800 The Raw; £1,800, £80; Walburn Hall £84; IE&M Kearton (DW); Lim X steers to £655 Whitch- Moore, High Side; res champion: EJ&RJ Wear, Howe Green. Farm. Suff: £280 Hollins Farm. Shlgs. – £1,500(3), £1,100 Harwood Shield; £80; WM Hutchinson & Son £80. ester; hfrs to £608 Whitchester; Brit W&HI Watson, Sanders Close. Prices. – Shlgs. – Swale: £100, £87, Texel: £360 Beck House Farm; £240 £1,600 Morley Hill, The Knarr, Low HEXHAM. – Last Fri. Fwd: 1,007 Blue X steers to £605 Beacon Rigg; Prizes. – Swale ram shlg upwards: £86, £81, £77 Gilts; £100 The Faulds; Chapel House (Blackburn). Swale: Ramshaw; £1,500, £1,150 Round Mead- cattle at annual special show & sale of hfrs to £570 Beacon Rigg; BAX steers 1 RH&EM Lord, The Bogg Farm; 2 £90 Well House; £85 The Lea; £84, £76 £320 High Croft; £300 Haw Bank; ows; £1,500 Thornhope; £1,300 Allergill; Char X, BAX, Brit Blue X & AAX suck- to £830 Townfoot; hfrs to £555 Hepple S&W Maughan, Street House; 3 Gillside; £82 Dyke Nook; £82, £75 £260, £220 Stoneriggs. Cheviot: £310, £1,000 Whitelees. Aged rams: £950, led calves, plus weekly sale of store Whitefield; AAX steers to £550 Belsay RH&EM Lord, The Bogg Farm. Blue- Wesco; £81 Haw Bank; £78, £76 Low £270, £210 Hill Top (Bell); £210(2), £700 Wintershields; £700 Round Mead- cattle. Judge: S Dale, Rooker Hill Barns; Herefd X steers to £618 Hesley- faced Leics ram lambs: 1&2 RH&EM Row Cheviot; £73 Shap Abbey. Herd- £200(2) Melbourne House. Suff: £300 ows, Shield Hill Top, Ouston Farm. (suckled calves). Silver Challenge side; hfrs to £545 Hesleyside Parks. Lord, The Bogg Farm; 3 Swallow, High wick: £64 Anns Cottage; £60 Haw Rosebowl: A Hall, Preston Tilery, 6 m-o Breeding sheep. – Feeding ewes: Texel Edges Green. Blue-faced Leics ram Bank. Ewes. – Swale: £215, £130 Howe Brit Blue X hfr calf, £900. Res champi- to £80 Girsonfield; Mule to £55.50 shlg upwards: 1 W&H I Watson, Green; £190, £102, £86 Wesco; £142, on & Scottish & Northern Charolais Healey Mill; Scottish Blackface to Sanders Close; 2 F&M Moore, High £95, £92, £90 Low Row; £135, £92, Breeders’ Association Cup: champion £38.50 Chesterwood; Swale to £35 The Side, 3 W&HI Watson, Sanders Close. £87(2), £85(2) Gillside; £90 Swindale Charolais calf, hfr out of a Brit Blue X Shield. Store lambs: Char X to £69.60 Blue-faced females: 1 F&M Moore, Farm; £88 Side Farm; £88 Haltcliffe; High Side; 2 S Allan & Sons, Green- £87 Undercragg. Herdwick: £60, £42 how; 3 F&M Moore, High Side. Anns Cottage; £44 Haw Bank; £40 Win- Prices. – Blue-faced Leics rams: ter Cragg; £40(2) Howtown Hotel. Gim- £2,000 The Dyke; £1,500, £1,200, mer lambs Swale: £53, £39 Wesco; £40 £1,100, £850 Kentmere Hall; £1,050 Stoneriggs; £39, £35 Setmabanning; Kilnstown Farms; £1,000, £850 £37 Undercragg; £37 Ulcatrow; £36 Sanders Close; £800 Whitewall, High Sandwick Farm; £36, £35 Hollins Farm; Side, Scarrowmanwick. Blue-faced £35 Dyke Nook. Herdwick: £50, £44, Leics females: £900, £350 The Dyke; £40 Anns Cottage; £42 Hollins Farm. £500 Kilnstown Farms; £420, £380(2) Also Thurs of last week. – Sixth an- High Side; £380 Greenhow. Swale: nual show & sale of registered Blue- £310 Hesley Wells; £300, £100 Street faced Leicesters. Overall champion: House; £300, £200, £160 Albyfield; first-prize ram lamb, Mr Raine Old £260, £140 Grange Hall; £120, £100 Parks. Res: second-prize ram lamb, Bertram Hill. Texel: £320, £300(4), £260 Messrs Lord, Hewgill. Female champi- Ravenwood; £240, £220, £200 Sower- on: AM Little, The Close. by Barn; £200, £180, £170 Parkview. Prizes. – Aged rams: 1&2 Hutchin- LEYBURN. – Last Fri. Fwd: 98 rear- son, Redgate. Shlg rams: 1&2 Raine, HAWES SHOW: first-prize Swaledale Gimmer lambs shown ing calves & stirks, 843 Mule & Cont Fog Close; 3 Stott, Laund Farm. Ram gimmer lambs & rams at show for Mule lambs: 1 overall champion; 2 res; 3 by NJ Bland, Shottle gimmer lambs. Judge: Tom Skinner, Dent, Greenriggs. ST JOHN’S SHOW: champion Swaledale tup Hill scheme: possible issues Event on A LAND expert believes the new Uplands Entry Stewardship will need to take advice on piecing rural Level Stewardship scheme could cause manage- together the agreements as the mix with Upland ment issues for some hill farmers in the SDA up- HLS options may make it difficult to accumulate land areas of Durham and North Yorkshire. significant grants. Claire Thorogood, of George F White, said the Farmers and land owners with land still in payments Hill Farming Allowance it will replace has paid Countryside Stewardship or Environmentally farmers to keep stock in the hills, whereas UELS is Sensitive Area agreements can apply for a transi- an environment based subsidy. tional payment (similar to the HFA) until their THE Rural Payments “Consequently, we are encouraging farmers agreement ends. Agency mapping update and landowners to plan ahead for entry into This will be applied for annually via the single team will hold an informa- UELS,” she said. “It will be particularly beneficial payment scheme form. tion evening for farmers at in the spring, one of the busiest periods in the Farmers in CSS agreements, but who were af- the UTASS offices in farming calendar for upland farmers.” fected by the HFA cap, may be able to choose be- It is hoped that those working within England’s Chapel Row, Middleton-in- tween UELS and the transitional payment, but SDA or SDA Moorland, will be able to apply for Teesdale, on Monday, at careful calculations will need to be considered. UELS from January 1 next year, with the first 7pm. agreements starting on July 1. Defra is aiming for an 80pc uptake of UELS, which would mean a total spend of more than The evening, which is or- The payment rates are likely to be £32 per ganised by UTASS and the hectare (£13 per acre) for SDA land and £15 per £25m per year. hectare (£6 per acre) for SDA Moorland. The latest detailed information will be available National Farmers’ Union This will be in addition to the ELS payments of late 2009 and the scheme should receive approval will include information on £30/ha SDA and £8/ha SDA Moorland. by the European Commission shortly. how farmers can check and Applicants will need to either be in an existing George F White is giving free independent ad- amend their maps. vice at the Percy Arms, Otterburn, on November ELS agreement, which will restart, or enter ELS at Anyone who would like to the same time. 24; The Durham Dales Centre, Stanhope, on No- Miss Thorogood said one benefit was that the vember 25; and Hawes auction mart on Novem- attend, or for more infor- upper cap would be removed, leading to in- ber 26th. mation, telephone 01833- creased payments for large scale hill farmers. For further information, contact Paul Young on 641010 or email info@ But she warned that applicants in Higher Level 01665-603231. utass.org.