Junior farmers at Leyburn
The annual junior cattle overwintering show and sale at Leyburn, judged by Giles Broadwith, Thornton Watlass, saw Oscar Boynton, Galpay, Ripon, take the championship with his Limousin steer which sold for £1,640. Oscar also received the prize for having achieved the best gross margin of £580.
In reserve was Luke Bell-Percy, Masham, with a British Blonde heifer bought as a rearing calf which sold for £710. This heifer also attained the highest daily liveweight gain of 1.69kg/day.
Auctioneers: Leyburn Auction Mart.
Gisburn dairy sale peaks at £2,650
Pedigree newly calved heifers led the way in Gisburn's dairy sale peaking at £2,650.
Sale topper from R.B. and M.J. Webster, Stocksbridge, was a 31kg daughter of Solarpower carrying the Clywedog prefix, with dam and grandam classified EX and Superior Production status. Another of the Webster quartet made £2,450, this one by Rubicon and under the Whitster prefix, while at £2,380 was another Solarpower from the same vendors, also Clywedog registered.
The leading average of the day at £2,507 was achieved by H. and V.E. Jolly, Great Eccleston. The dearest of their six Fieldside heifers at £2,620 was a 36kg Altaamulet from the Rolie family, out of a 14,521kg dam. Close behind at £2,600 apiece and giving 35kg were an Altamaui daughter and an Altagopro from their Electric Baby family. Messrs Jolly also sold another Altamaui daughter at £2,480.
Selling at £2,550 was R.A. Metcalfe, Gargrave, with a Delta Podcast carrying the Luptonhall prefix while at £2,520, Fordswood herd owners J., J.M., and H.J. Walmsley, Pilling, sold their home-bred Attico Red daughter.
The pedigree cow trade saw two from Anthony Grimshaw, Bolton, selling at £2,400 and £2,300, both SP second calvers giving 50kg. Dearest was Bervie Basic Nancy 105 and the other, the home-bred Carldanton Apps Mist which had given 14,257kg as a heifer.
In-calf heifers peaked at £1,820 for a pedigree heifer carrying to the Angus from D.W. and M.N. Ishmael, Orrell, while S.T. Pye, Great Eccleston, sold three organic Friesians to £1,380.
Averages - Pedigree newly calved heifers, £2,247; pedigree newly calved cows, £2,079; non-registered newly calved heifers, £1,675; pedigree in-calf heifers, £1,255.
Auctioneers: Gisburn Auction Marts.
Store cattle sell to £2,170 at Hexham
The entry of more than 400 store cattle and suckled calves at Hexham topped at £2,170 for British Blonde cross steers from P. and P.M. Walker, Tow Law, which peaked at £2,170.00 and averaged £2052.50.
Ian Thornton, Knaresborough, sold Aberdeen-Angus cross steers to £2,000 and Charolais cross steers to £1,960.
Limousin cross heifers from the Moralee family, Hard Riding, sold to £1,950 with another at £1,800.
J.H.C. Campbell and Sons, Thrunton, sold pure Aberdeen-Angus heifers to £1,780.
Yearling Angus-bred cattle from F. Hall and Sons, East Butsfield, topped at £1,600 for steers.
Weaned calves were in demand with nine-month-old Limousin cross steers from J.D. Walton and Sons, Burnbank, selling to £1,410.
At the same price was a pen of seven Aberdeen-Angus cross steers from C.A. and J. Watmore, Holystone Estate.
A small entry of young bulls saw Limousin crosses from A. R. White, Low Staples, sell to £1,390.
Auctioneers: Hexham and Northern Marts.
Dorset rams top at 1,400gns at Exeter
The sale of Dorsets on behalf of the Centurion Breeders Group at Exeter topped at 1,400gns twice. Firstly, for the champion, a shearling ram from Fooks Bros' Poorton flock, Bridport, which sold to Arthur Jones, Salisbury.
The other at this money was a shearling ram from Jim and Joe Dufosee's Blackhill flock, Warminster, which was knocked down to John Rendle, Tiverton.
Ram lambs from Hydes Farming, Essex, sold at at 950gns, 850gns, 800gns and 500gns twice.
Richard and David Rossiter, Kingsbridge, sold ram lambs to 800gns.
Females peaked at 500gns for the champion, a ewe lamb from Hydes Farming with others from the same home at 400gns and 350gns.
Auctioneers: Kivells.
Carlisle dairy sale tops £2,650 twice
The entry of 250-head of dairy cattle at Carlisle saw heifers sell to £2,650 twice for the Bryson family, Lesmahagow. Firstly, with Carnduff Targaryen Rosebud giving 38kg and bred from a EX92 pointed dam which sold to Messrs Robinson, Brampton, and also for Carnduff Charming Lass giving 40kg, which went to Willes Farms, Bideford.
Another heifer from the same home, Carnduff Charming Girl, sold for £2,600 also to Messrs Robinson.
The Fleming family, Kirkpatrick-Fleming, sold four heifers to average almost £2,300, with Hillhead Episode Jill giving 40kg with a PLI of +£536 making £2,550 to Willes Farms.
A consignment of British Friesian cows and heifers from R.P. Shank's Queenscairn herd, Kelso, topped at £1,950 for second calver, Queenscairn Jingle Rosette giving 44kg.
Cumrew Farming Partners, Dumfries, sold 73 Irish Friesian cross-bred dry cows mainly due in May to the Aberdeen-Angus topping at £1,320.
In-calf heifers topped at £1,580 for Eastbank Zasberilla Cora due in June to Warnelview Bestow from Tom Steveson, Blackburn.
The Holstein bull Annandale Canterbury by Vogue Solarpower out of Annandale BG Cameron from W. and J. Amour, Moffat, sold for £3,200 to Messrs Fox, Longtown.
Averages - 116 Holstein heifers in-milk, £1,918.13; 5 Holstein cows in-milk, £1,466; 12 British Friesian cows/heifers in-milk, £1,620.83; 1 Jersey cow in-milk, £950; 7 faulted cows/three-quartered cows, £945.71; 1 Holstein bull, £3,200; 73 Irish Friesian cross-bred dry cows, £844.93; 15 Holstein in-calf/short-bred heifers, £1,046.66; 13 Holstein Friesian bulling heifers, £764.61; 3 Jersey bulling heifers, £470.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Woodgrove dispersal peaks at 2,200gns
The dispersal sale of the Woodgrove herd of Holstein Friesians for David and Christine Elliott, Wellesbourne, Warwick, at Market Drayton topped at 2,200gns twice.
Longevity was a major feature of the sale, with a number of the milkers forward having had five calves or more. Fifth calvers sold to 1,700gns and seventh calvers to 1,500gns.
In-calf heifers due in May and June sold to 1,750gns and 1,700gns four times. Bulling heifers sold to 1,050gns and heifer calves to 480gns.
Averages - 61 milking cows and heifers, £1,461; 11 faulted cows, £923; 24 in-calf heifers, £1,590; 18 bulling heifers, £966; 16 heifer calves, £412.
Auctioneers: Gwilym Richards and Co with Barbers.
Dairies at Leyburn
At Leyburn's dairy show and sale, the judges, David and John Smith, Keighley, chose pedigree Holstein heifers from John Thompson and family, Bishop Auckland, as champion and reserve with both selling for £2,300 each. Judith Carlisle was there to present the Billy Atkinson Memorial Trophy of behalf of the family.
Richard and Avril Mcgregor, Bishopdale, claimed third place, also with a calved heifer which made £1,900. Holstein in-milk heifers averaged £1,856.
Auctioneers: Leyburn Auction Mart.
New hogg record at Skipton
A new hogg centre record of £6.25/kg (£250/head) was set at Skipton for a single 40kg Beltex from Peter Longdin, Doncaster.
The 2,331 hoggs averaged £172.95 or 389.3p/kg with 40 pens making £200/head or more.
The 65 Spring lambs averaged £198.53 or 446.2p/kg (SQQ 449.0p/kg), Charles and Valerie Marwood and son, Stephen, Foulrice Charollais, York, had the top price per head of £232 for 49kg lambs going to Knavesmire Butchers, York. The leading per kilo price of 518p (£228) went to a 44kg Texel from Chris Craven, York.
Auctioneers: CCM.
