HALLWORTHY

KIVELLS reports a really busy sheep section on Friday with 1,471 sold. Overall top was £122 for the pick of young ewes from Messrs Lucas and there were plenty sold for more than £100. The 312 cull ewes met a good trade, with six buyers keenly contesting and a top of £94.50 for Ross Sizmur, Okehampton, whose top 12 pens averaged £89.21. Another wonderful entry of 734 store lambs met an amazing trade with a market average of more than £56 and a top of £71.50 for Roskilley Farms, Nutleigh, Tavistock. In the prime lamb pens, premium was awarded to Messrs Humber at 170ppk. A tidy entry of cull cows saw a top of £680 for J F Davison. In the store cattle pens Messrs Cowell took top honours at £840 for Simmental cows and calves. Best steers came from Messrs Bolitho, Pensilva, at £752 for the pick of a lovely consignment of Simmental and Charolais steers with plenty selling for well over £700. Best heifers came from A Randall, Higher Penpethy Farm, Tintagel, at £675 for four useful Charolais.

LISKEARD

KIVELLS held the second 2010 sale of breeding ewes with trade sky high, topped at £145 by a run of Texel-cross 2Ts from W J Harris & Son, Mount. The Harris family saw their second pen at £132 while Dave Lewis, Launceston, saw his first four pens of smart Suffolk-cross 2Ts at £128. The average for the entire entry of breeding ewes was £107.61. A good show of stock rams saw the day topped by Quick & Partners, Zeal Monachorum, at £483 with the best of their Texels. In the prime lamb pens a useful entry met spirited bidding from start to finish with a top of £80 for E M Hooper, Trego Farm. Premium was 173ppk for A J Wills and the average was 162.5ppk and £69.57. In the draft ewe pens a good entry sold to a continued very strong trade with C P Hutchings, Netherton, topping at £75.50. There were far too few calves going under the hammer, with an immense trade for Charolais bulls to £360 for T Copplestone, Trethevy. Limousins went for £205 for Messrs Jones, Lower Brightor. Best heifer calves also came from the Copplestone family at £285 for Charolais. A small entry of store cattle included a useful run of Limousin steers from Messrs Sandercock, East Castick at £658. They also topped in the Aberdeen Angus section at £650.