STORE cattle values improved by 14p per kg on the year, at Aberdeen and Northern Marts' show and sale of 1379 head at Thainstone, where the champion, from Lloyd Fowlie, Guise, topped the trade at £1520.

Selling at this price was an 11-month-old, home-bred 532kg Limousin bullock that sold to the judge, Bill Cameron, Burnside of Edingight, Grange.

The judge also purchased his reserve winner, a similarly aged and bred bullock weighting 540kg from the same home, at £1340.

Uppermill Farms, Kintore, picked up the award for the champion pen of four with Limousin heifers scaling 482kg which realised £1260 to F Walker, Culfork, Alford.

Outwith the show cattle, the 897 bullocks averaged 225.5p per kg (+15.2p on the year) having sold to 284p for a 338kg Limousin from Hillocks, Keig and £1470 for pen of four 714kg Aberdeen Angus from Cluny Crighton, Banchory.

The 469 heifers cashed in at 219.7p (+13.4p) peaking at 304.3p for a 350kg Limousin cross from Achdregnie, Glenlivet and £1410 for a 658kg Charolais from Rivefold, Ythanwells.

Bulls (13) sold to 231.6p per kg for a 326kg Aberdeen Angus from Prettycur Farm, Hillside and £1120 for a 626kg Simmental from Finzean Estate, Banchory.

LEADINGprices

Bullocks – Up to 300kg – Auchenhalrig, Speybey £720, 250p. 301-350kg – Hillocks, Keig £960, Lagavaich 274.9p. 351-400kg – Lagavaich, Glenlivet £1080, 279.8p. 401-450kg – Lagaviach £1155, 270p. 451-500kg – Uppermill £1240, 257.3p. 501-550kg – Bogentassie, Lumphanan £1260, 239.2p. 551-600kg – Deskie, Glenlivet £1360, 229.7p. 601-650kg – Rivefold £1435, Rivefold 229.2p. 651-700kg – Deskie £1460, 220.5p. 701-750kg – Standingstones, Echt £1400, Cluny Crighton 205.9p.

Heifers – Up to 300kg – Lagavaich, Glenlivet £870, 295.9p. 301-350kg – Auchregnie £1065, 271.2p. 351-400kg – Uppermill £970, Lagavaich 261.4p. 401-450kg – Croftbain. Tomnavoulin, £1100, Rorandle, Monymusk 259.8p. 451-500kg – Tillenturk £1190, Cluseburn 256.6p. 501-550kg – Wester Coltfield, Kinloss £1260, 48 John Morrison Crescent, Maud 238.1p. 551-600kg – Meiklebogs, Gordonstown £1250, 217.8p. 601-650kg – Bogentassie, Lumphanan £1340 221.1p.