BENTHAM, Tuesday, January 4. Monthly sale of suckler breeding cattle, feeding bulls and store cattle. Forward: 157 including 11 feeding bulls, 146 store cattle.

Prices feeding bulls: Limousin cross to £455 (average £407); Belgian Blue cross £402 (£400); Charolais cross £330; Friesian £220 (£196). Steers: Limousin cross (green) £480 (£461); (blue) £478 (£435); Belgian Blue cross (blue) £525 (£503.50); Aberdeen Angus cross (blue) £498; Charolais cross (blue) £528 (£488); Blonde d'Aquitaine cross (blue) £508; Friesian (blue) £398 (£355); Limousin cross (red) £518 (£516.50); Belgian Blue cross (red) £548 (£502); Charolais cross (red) £460; Blonde d'Aquitaine cross (red) £528; Friesian (red) £520 (£333). Heifers: Limousin cross £525 (£400); Belgian Blue cross £528 (£432); Aberdeen Angus cross £358 (£316.50); Charolais cross £450 (£424); Blonde d'Aquitaine cross £452 (£393); Friesian £265.

HAWES, Tuesday, January 4. Forward: 15 calves and 1,896 sheep comprising 1,343 prime hoggs; 353 light hoggs; and 200 cast ewes and rams.

Prices calves: Belgian Blue bulls to £210 (average £204); heifers £155 (proceeds donated to the Tsunami Disaster Fund); Limousin bulls £172 (£136.75); heifers £100 (£77.20); Blonde d'Aquitaine bulls £162 (£134); heifers £42.

Prime hoggs: light 113.1 pence per kilo (104p); standard 144.1p (106.1p); medium 134p (107p); heavy 111.8p (98.2p). Overall average 106.6p. Continental 144.1p, £59; Suffolk 115p, £53; Mule 113.1p, £51.50; Horned 108.9p, £46.20. Lightweight hoggs: Continental 111.6p (107.5p); Suffolk 111.8p (103.4p); Mule 109.4p (106.2p); Horned 108.8p (101.3p). Cast ewes: Horned £27 (£14.36); Polled £36.40 (£26.45). Cast rams: Horned £26.50 (£18.25); Polled £37 (£27.33).

KIRKBY Stephen, Tuesday, January 4. Prize Show and Sale of Swaledale prime lambs and weekly sheep. Forward: 2,228 with 318 ewes and rams.

Results. Swaledale prime lambs: 1 Mr C.R. Thornborrow, West Stonesdale, 42 kilos, £45; 2 Messrs Skidmore, Wolf Cleugh, 45 kilos, £46.50; 3 Walburn Hall Farms, Downholme, 41 kilos, £42.

Prices lambs 35 kilos or more: Texel cross to £54.20 (average 109.30 pence per kilo); Suffolk cross £53.50 (107.81p); Charollais £54.50 (104.88p); Cheviot cross £54.50 (106.07p); Mule £48 (104.44p); Masham £46 (97.51p); Swaledale £48 (100.32p); Rough Fell £45.50 (98.91p). 34 kilos or less: Cheviot cross £35.80 (105.25p); Charollais £35 (103p); Mule £34 (100.31p); Herdwick £34 (97.85p); Rough Fell £31 (92.28p); Swaledale £33.20 (95.62p). Cast/feeding ewes: Scotch Blackface £21.50 (£17.07); Hill Cheviot £33 (£21.83); Charollais £37 (£37); Mule £35 (£28.07); Rough Fell £23.50 (£18.54); Suffolk £56.50 (£56.50); Swaledale £21.20 (£16); Texel £35 (£28); Lleyn £32. Rams: Bluefaced Leicester £46 (£34); Rough Fell £21 (£19); Suffolk £50 (£47.50); Swaledale £24 (£22.25); Texel £50 (£42.34).

LANCASTER, Monday, January 3. Forward: 37 prime cattle; 1,540 prime sheep; 213 cast ewes.

Prices prime cattle: light steers to 96.5 pence per kilo (average 94p); medium 99.5p (86.8p); heavy/overweight 99.5p (99.5p). Light heifers 99.5p (90.9p); medium 99.5p (91.5p); heavy/overweight 120.5p (96.7p). Light bulls 86.5p (80.5p); medium 82.5p (82.5p); heavy/overweight 89.5p (80.5p).

Cast ewes £49 (£27.28). Prime hoggs: light 106.2p (97.9p); standard 119.2p (108.7p); medium 119p (107.2p); heavy 110.8p (100.5p); overweight 96.4p (92p). Lambs to £55, 119.2p.

PENRITH, Monday, January 3. Sale of prime cattle. Forward: 43 comprising 19 clean cattle and 24 bulls.

Prices Limousin heifers to 139.5 pence per kilo; Blonde d'Aquitaine 126.5p. Limousin steers 104.5p. Limousin bulls 117.5p; Belgian Blue 103.5p; Friesian 88.5p; Hereford cross 95.5p.

Sale of store cattle. Forward: 120.

Prices Limousin bullocks £652; Holstein £432; Belgian Blue £652; Aberdeen Angus cross £638. Limousin cross heifers £548; Belgian Blue cross £435; Charolais cross £530; Aberdeen Angus cross £468. Limousin cross bull calves £160; Friesian £95. Friesian bull stirks £170; Limousin cross £322.

Tuesday, January 4. Fortnightly sale of store sheep.

Prices Texel cross lambs to £44; Continental cross £44; Cheviot £44; Suffolk cross £42.20; Mule £41.50; Swaledale £33.50.