Ervie Herefords top at £5,600
The sale of rising two-year-old Hereford bulls at Dumfries on behalf of John Douglas and family's Ervie herd, Stranraer, topped at £5,600 for Ervie L1 Advance 702984, a light birthweight bull with strong estimated breeding values from the Noreen family. It sold to with Black Baldie breeder R. Parker, Drumdow.
Next, at £5400, was Ervie L1 Achiever 503003 which sold online to Messrs Lewis, Anglesley.
R.C. Shearlaw and Son, High Garphair, paid £4,000 for Toward L1 Achiever from the Ervie Unitarian Family.
Ervie L1 Achiever 302987 caught the eye of T. McMillan, Eskechraggan, Isle of Bute, who paid £3,800. Another from the achiever family with a straight Line 1 Pedigree.
Aberdeen-Angus bulls sold to £4,000 twice. Firstly, for Airies Sholto 203147 bought by D. Sidebottom, Derbyshire, and then for Airies Sholto 603158 which went to Messrs March and Lobban, Kirkcudbright. Messrs Reid, Saltcoats then paid £3,800 for Airies Sholto 703159.
Average - 40 bulls, £2,835.
Store cattle record smashed at Shrewsbury
A new record store cattle of £2,070 was set at Shrewsbury for a 32-month-old 755kg Simmental bullock from A.K. and C.E. Lloyd, Welshpool.
A 795kg Aberdeen-Angus bullock, also from Messrs Lloyd, sold for £1,900, two 720kg Charolais bullocks from T.D. Jones, Newtown, made £1,860/head and another 565kg bullock from the same vendor made £1,690.
The best Holsteins sold to £1,550 for a 620kg entry from B. and S. Tomlins, Craven Arms.
In the younger cattle, a nine-month-old Limousin bullock from Lewis Davies, Buckley, sold for £1,630 (329p/kg). Top price per kilo was 331p/kg (£1,390) for a home-bred Limousin bullock from K.M. Croft, Worthen.
Heifers peaked at £1,560 (303p/kg) for pure Charolais from R.J. and G.D. Talbot, Staffordshire. Limousin heifers from W.S. Powell and Sons, Alberbury, sold to £1,530 (273p/kg). Top price per kilo at 320p were home-bred Limousins from Messrs Croft.
Dairy-bred heifers sold to £1,470 for 630kg Simmentals from Pat Price, Bicton. A 555kg British Blue cross heifer from S.L. Lawrence, Crickheath, sold for £1,430.
Auctioneers: Halls.
British Blue day at Leyburn
At Leyburn's British Blue day the store cattle were judged by Liam Rodney, Masham, accompanied by Hayley Baines, who bought the three main prize winners, the champion and reserve British Blue and the winning feeding bull.
The overall champion was a British Blue heifer from Stephen Potter, Thirsk, which made £1,880. The first prize-winning British Blue-cross bull from the same home sold for the day's top price of £2,000.
Reserve champion was a British Blue steer from Bainbridge Brothers, Marrick, which sold for £1,640.
The rearing calf show was judged by Robin Williamson, Hamsterley, with the champion and reserve going to Stephen Sowray, Bishop Thornton. The champion, a bull, received the Tim Raw Trophy, with Mr Raw there for the presentation and then sold for £570 to Val and Thomas Pattison, Northallerton, The reserve, a heifer, sold for to Paul Johnson, York.
Auctioneers: Leyburn Auction Mart.
Carlisle dairy sale tops at £2,400
The entry of almost 300 dairy cattle Carlisle topped at £2,400 four times with the 137 milking heifers averaging £1,946.
The first to sell for £2,400 was Mansebrae Dreambig Carefree by Kings Ransom Dreambig from the Watt family, Lanarkshire, which went to Messrs Watson and Co, Cumnock.
Matt Gemmell, Dumfries, sold five heifers to average £2,200, with two selling for £2,400. The first was Brownfield Applejax Elfeda, which sold to Messrs Dent and Son, Darlington.
Next was Brownfield Mercedes Agnes, which went to Messrs Green and Son, Northwich, who also paid £2,400 for Petteril Adorable Carol from Messrs Morley, Carlisle.
The third sale to disperse the ESK pedigree Holstein Friesian herd for Robert Byers, Canonbie, topped at £2,300 for Esk Brilliant Bety by Inch Brilliant.
The Dent family, Kirkby Thore, sold 12 Pro Cross heifers, topping at £2,300 for a Danish Red heifer by Vimo.
Ayrshire heifers from the Stevenson family, Stranraer, sold to £2,000 for a daughter of Palmyra Power Remsberg.
In-calf heifers topped at £1,680 for Coppside April, in-calf to an Angus bull from Messrs Jackson, Dumfries.
Averages - 137 Holstein heifers in-milk, £1,946.64: 37 Holstein cows in-milk, £1,721.03; 14 Pro Cross heifers in-milk, £1,939.28; 2 Ayrshires in-milk, £1,925; 2 British Friesian cows in-milk, £1,510; 27 faulted/three-quartered cows, £1,120.37; 15 Pro Cross dry cows, £1,238; 27 Holstein in-calf heifers, £1,441.82; 8 Jersey and cross-bred in-calf heifers, £1,020; 6 Holstein bulling heifers, £1,041.66.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Strong hogg trade at Bentham
The sale of 4,220 hoggs at Bentham averaged 315p/kg, up 79p/kg on the year and included the Super Two competition. The first prize hoggs from A.L. Thompson, Foulridge, topped the sale at £238 (490.7p/kg).
The second prize hoggs from R.A. Cowperthwaite, Malham Moor, sold at £220/head.
Away from the show, hoggs sold to £208, with best price per kilo from J.M. Hall, Skipton, at 465.9p. Plenty of the very best handy weights were around 400p/kg, with others 340-380p/kg.
Auctioneers: Richard Turner and Son.
