Driffield

Forward on Monday August 7 301 head of stock, 44 cattle including 12 steers, 30 heifers and two young bulls, 196 sheep including three ewes, 61 pigs.

Cattle: steers, premium to 129.5 per kg (109.5p). prime to 90.5; heifers, premium to 122.5 (101.8p), prime to 98.5p (92p); young bulls to 102.5p (101.5p).

Sheep: spring lambs, light to £26 per head or 87p (80p), standard to £33.20 or 90p (78.3p), medium to £36 or 86p (80.6p), heavy to £44.50 or 87p; prime hoggs, heavy to £18.50 or 37p, super heavy to £34.50 or 38p (36p); ewes to £28.50 (£25.40).

Pigs: porkers to 81p per kg (78.2p), cutters to 78p (77p), baconers to 72p.

Malton

Forward on Monday August 7 five cattle, 94 sheep and 147 pigs.

Cattle: heifers, medium to 123.5p per kg (109.9p), heavy to 108.5p (108p).

Sheep: lambs, standard to 83.7p (80.2p), medium to 93.3p (85.7p), heavy to 99.6p (93.3p).

Pigs: porkers to 85p (79p), cutters to 83p (78.3p), baconers to 82.5p (77.6p), sows to 47p (46.7p).

Forward on Saturday at the annual early show and sale 5,710 breeding sheep and store lambs. Draft ewes to £28.50 per head, Texel X ewes (correct) to £45, North gimmer shearlings to £61, ch X gimmer shearlings to £57, Mule ewes to £38, Suffolk X ewes (one crop) to £59, Suffolk X ewes(two crop) to £55.50, Suffolk X gimmer shearlings to £88, Texel X store lambs to £32.50, Suffolk X store lambs to £32.80, ch X store lambs to £33.50. Best pen of Suffolk X gimmer shearlings - 1 R W Twiddle; 2 and 3 M Field. Best pen of ewe lambs - 1, J H Smedley and sons. Best pen of store lambs - 1 R W Boyes; 2, J L Hird and co; 3, G R Brooke. Accredited section: Suffolk Ram lambs to 280gns, Suffolk shearling rams to 290gns, Texel shearling rams to 345gns, ch ram lambs to 380gns, Texel gimmer shearlings to 85gns, Suffolk ewes to 106gns. Best Suffolk ram lamb - 1, J T Midgely; 2, G C Harper; 3, D Stewart MBE. Best Suffolk shearling ram - 1, M T Bulmer; 2, B W and D J Glaves and sons; 3, A N and M Bulmer. Best Texel ram lamb - 1, D C and C Bywater. Best Texel shearling ram - 1 and 2, P Jewitt and sons; 3, C L and S B Pratt. Best ch ram lamb - 1 and 2, C W Marwood. Best ch Shearling ram - 1, S Hunter; 2 and 3, C W Marwood.

Forward on August 8 were 153 cattle including 66 young bulls, 460 sheep including 60 ewes, 119 pigs including four sows.

Cattle: Steers, premium to 115.5p per kg (106.3p), prime to 100.5p (91.6p), heifers, premium to 125.5p (107.9p), prime to 99.5p (90.5p), young bulls, premium to 112.5p (104.8p), prime to 99.5p (93.8p), steers, medium to 109.5p (97.6p), heavy to 115.5p (96.6p), heifers, light to 113.5p (97.6p), medium to 118.5p (100.9p), heavy to 125.5p (93.6p), young bulls, medium to 111.5p (94.5p), heavy to 112.5p (92.6p).

Sheep: lambs, standard to 87.2p (92.2p), medium to 90.7p (83.2p), heavy to 95.6p (85.6p), ewes to £31.50 per head (£17.16).

Pigs: Porkers to 78p per kg (75.8p), cutters to 78.5p (76.2p), baconers to 77.5p (73.6p), sows to 42p (41.2p).

Ruswarp

Forward on August 2 were 64 cattle, comprising 25 store cattle and 39 calves, 73 sheep.

Store cattle: Fr bullocks to £365 per head, heifers to £380; Lim bullocks to £400; Ch bullocks to £350, AA bullocks to £322, heifers to £238; Sim bullocks to £410; BB bullocks to £400; Blond bullocks to £320, heifers to £275; Lim bulls to £280; calves, Fr bull to £25; Lim bulls to £202, Lim heifers to £70; BB Bulls to £140, heifers to £58; AA bulls to £50, heifers to £45; Sim bulls to £135.

Sheep: ewes, Texels to £24.50, Mules to £32, Mashams to £17, swales to £13.

Forward Monday August 7 53 cattle, 123 sheep, 20 pigs.

Cattle: steers, premium to 105.5p per kg, prime to 95.5p (93.5p), others to 86.5p (82.4p); heifers, premium to 1075p (104.5p), prime to 98.5p (93.3p), others to 87.5p (78.8p); bulls, premium to 105.5p (102.5p), prime to 97.5p (94.9p), others to 87.5p (84.1p).

Sheep: lambs, standard to £34.50 per head or 87.7p per kg (84.1p), medium to £41.50) or 90.5p (87.9p), heavy to £44 or 91.2p (90.1p).

Pigs: cutters to 77p (76p), baconers to 77p (74p), overweight to 73p.

Selby

Forward on August 4 were 285 fat cattle including 100 young bulls, 339 sheep including 39 ewes, 403 pigs including 24 sows and boars.

Cattle: fat cattle with overall average 92.5p; steers, premium to 116.5p (104.8p), prime to 97.5p (94.7p); others to 91.5p (84.5p); heifers, premium to 121.5p (105.2p), prime to 100.5p (95.9p), others to 92.5p (84.2p); young bulls, premium to 111.5p (102.5p), prime to 99.5p (94.3p), others to 87.5p (78.3p).

Sheep: lambs, standard to 91.6p (78.5p), medium to 85p (81.8p), heavy to 85.2p (80.3p), shearlings to 57.5p, ewes to £29 (£20.78).

Pigs: porkers to 83p (79.8p), cutters to 83p (77.4p), baconers to 82p (73.4p), others to 74p (66.1p), sows to 45.4p (40.6p), boars to 26p.

Forward on August 5 were 547 head of store stock comprising 102 store cattle including 12 cows and calves, 28 stirks, 35 calves, 200 pigs, 10 sows and boars, 120 sheep and 10 goats.

Cattle: steers to £635 per head £3372), heifers to £380 (£130), bulls to £388 (£180); cows and heifer calves to £510 (£375), cows and bull calves to £490 (£460); heifer stirks to £183 (£130), bull stirks to £248 (£103.50); heifer calves to £65 (£35), bull calves to £30.

Pigs: store pigs to £59.50 (£39.20), fat pigs to £70.50 (£64), sows to £109 (£82), boars to £90 (£82), gilts to £66.50 (£65.50).

Sheep: Store lambs to £23.50 (£20.50), ewes to £30 (£18.50), rams to £80.

Goats: Nannies to £22, billies to £27.

Thirsk

Forward on August 3 were 217 finished catle including 48 sheep including 994 lambs and 122 ewes, 1018 finished pigs including 166sows and boars.

Cattle: A smaller entry of cattle were a firmer trade than last week Steers medium to 107.5p (188.6p0 av 99p, heavy to 109.5 (192.1) av 99.2p, heifers medium to 113.5p (199.1) av 95.7p, heavy to 113.5p (199.1p) av 98p, young bulls medium 10 103.5p (181.6p) av 89.4p, heavy to 102.5p 9179.8p) av 93.5p.

Sheep: Sheep also sold well particularly best quality lambs, which sold to 90.5p and £44 per head. Lambs standard to 84.6p (180p) av 78.3p, medium to 90.5p (192.6p) av 81.4p, heavy to 84.3p (179.4) av 80.7p, overweights to 77.2p (164.3) av 75.7p, ewes light to £15 per head (£10.29, heavy to £39.50 (£19.86), black faced Leicester to £39.50, Suffolks to £30, Cont to £30, Mules to £30.

Pigs: porkers to 80.5p per kg (77.9p), cutters to 79p (76.6p), baconers to 83.5p (76.3p), overweights to 76.5p (68.7p), sows/boars to 45.5p or £148.33 (40.6p)

Malton + 1

Forward on August 4 were 65 store cattle, 23 store lambs.

Cattle: Blonde, bullocks to £518 Lim, bullocks to £576, heifers to £495; Sim, bullocks to £528; AA, bullocks to £225; BB, heifers to £525; Fr bulls to £180.

Sheep: store lambs to £22.

York

Forward on August 3 were 224 accredited cattle, including five accredited dairy cattle, 87 calves, 96 stirks, eight store cattle, 28 cows and calves; 66 store sheep; 486 store pigs.

Cattle: accredited dairy cattle (with pric es to £660), Fr heifers newly-calven to £660, Fr cows newly-calven to £540, AA cow and calf to £435, Lim cow and calf to £665, AA cow in calf to £420; accredited store cattle (with prices to £420 or 94p), Ch to £420 or 87p, Lim to £398 or 94p, BB to £360 or 81p; accredited stirks (with prices to £448), stirks to 20 weeks to £255 (av bulls £247, heifers £126), Fr to £175, stirks over 20 weeks (av steers £364, bulls £379, heifers £231), Ch to £448, Lim to £432, Sim to £430, BB to £388, Blond to £360, Piedmont to £300; accredited calves (with prices to £150), Ch bulls to £82, heifers to £48 (£39), Sim bulls to £100 (£88), heifers to £40 (£27), Fr bulls to £58 (£20), Hfd heifers to £20 (£15), AA bulls to £28, heifers to £7, Lim bulls to £148 (£93), heifers to £45 (£26), BB bulls to £130 (£120). A very fast trade indeed, no doubt a reflection on the low cost of feed barley. A good time to be selling.

Sheep: store sheep (with prices to £57), ewes to £47, shearlings to £57, Suffolk X lambs to £27.20, Texel X lambs to £32.

Pigs: store pigs (with prices to £69), 8-10 weeks to £23 (£21.59), 10-12 weeks to £44.20 (£40.22), over 12 weeks old to £69 (£47.97).

lForward on August 7 were: 280 cattle including 134 young bulls, 935 sheep including 128 ewes, 944 pigs including 73 sows, 5 boars.

Cattle: finished steers, premium to 117.5p per kg (103.2p), prime to 105.5p (91.4p), others to 92.5p (82.1p); finished heifers, premium to 120.5p (104.9p), prime to 105.5p (89.7p), others to 98.5p (81.1p); finished young bulls premium to 116.5p (100.3p), prime to 99.5p (91.3p), others to 92.5p (82.2p); Cont young bulls to 116.5p (97.3p), other young bulls to 97.5p (84.9p); steers light to 111.5p (93.3p), medium to 117.5p (95.4p), heavy to 112.5p (91p); heifers, light to 114.5p (93.9p), medium to 120.5p (94.6p), heavy to 111.5p (91.1p).

Sheep: lambs, light to £25 per head or to 83.3p per head or to 95.4p (81p), medium to £39.80 per head or to 92.9p per kg (84.4p), heavy to £44.80 per head or to 87.5p (81.4p), ewes to £33 per head £18.78), rams to £9.80.

Pigs: porkers to 84.5p per kg (78.3p), cutters to 83.2p (77.8p), baconers to 82.5p (77p), others to 78p (74.7p), sows to £152.88 or 60p (41.1p), boars to £84.77 or 53p (25.8p).