Prices at the special livestock sales on February 17 at Middleton auction mart.

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE

February 17. Fwd: 313 cattle. Judges: Ian and Amy Holmes, Middle Stotfold Farm, Elwick, Hartlepool. Champion & Phillip Holden Rural Trophy: John & Joanne White, Rigg Farm, Lunedale, British Blue X heifer, £1,600 to Andrew Geary, Yew Tree Farm, Milton Keynes. Reserve champion & Middleton Mart Director’s Trophy: GW Lee & Sons, Stockley Burn Farm, Frosterley, Limousin cross bullock, £1,250 to the judges. Top price: reserve champion heifer, JC&J White, Rigg Farm, 9-m-o red Lim hfr, £3,400 to Mark Harryman, Swainse Burn Farm, Pickering. Best Beast owned by a Strathmore tenant: JC&J White & Rigg Farm.

Prizes

Lim X bullocks: 1 champion bullock GW Lee & Sons, Stockley Burn, £1,250 to AG&FM Bailes, Hartlepool; 2 reserve champion & 3 JC&J White, Rigg Farm, £1,500 to MT Keel, Thirsk, £1,250 to R Naylor, Ashbourne. Brit Blue X bullocks: 1 BR Lawson & Son, Buddle House, £1,260 to KW Philipson, Penrith; 2 JC&J White, Rigg Farm, £1,200 to R Naylor, Ashbourne; 3 BR Lawson & Son, Buddle House, £1,090 to RJ&LM Raine, Penrith. Bullock, any other breed: 1 JC&J White, Rigg Farm, £1,800 to JL White & Son, Goole; 2 C&JC Stephenson, Pikestone Farm, £810 to JL White & Son, Goole. Lim X hfr: 1 Reserve champion hfr JC&J White, Rigg Farm, £3,400 to MA Harryman, Pickering; 2 WM Reed & Sons, West Biggins Farm, £1,470 to JL White & Son, Goole; 3 GW Lee & Sons, Stockley Burn, £1,160 to RJ&LM Raine, Penrith. Brit Blue hfr: 1 Champion hfr JC&J White, Rigg Farm, £1,600 to AJ Geary, Milton Keynes.

Prices

Hfrs – Lim: £3,400, £1,480, £1,150, £1,080, £1,060 Rigg Farm; £1,470 West Biggins; £1,160 Stockley Burn; £1,120, £1,000(2), £990 Low Nook Farm; £1,040 Low House; £1,030, £1,000 Bank Top; £1,010 Buddle House; £990 Herdship. Brit Blue: £1,600 Rigg Farm; £950 Hayberries; £910 Lanehead Farm; £820, £805 Parrick House. Char: £1,010, £800 Woodside Farm. BA: £890 Valance Lodge. Simm: £725 Herdship.

Bullocks. – Char: £1,800 Rigg Farm; £1,075, £1,045 Low House. Lim: £1,500, £1,280, £1,250, £1,160, £1,150(2), £1,060, £1,040 Rigg Farm; £1,250 Stockley Burn; £1,170, £1,135, £1,120 Buddle House; £1,160, £1,150, £1,040 Bank Top; £1,160(3), £1,110, £1,070 Low Nook Farm; £1,085, £1,080, £1,060 Ash Dub. Brit Blue: £1,260, £1,090 Buddle House; £1,200, £930 Rigg Farm; £1,120 Low Nook Farm; £1,100 Parrick House; £1,000, £920, £940 Lanehead Farm; £960 Moory Lea; £960 Grains O Beck; £930 Rigg Farm. BA: £980, £920 Hayberries. Beef Shorthorn: £810 Pikestone.