Sheep dogs top at £10,200 online
The online sale of sheep dogs hosted by Farmers Marts (R.G. Jones), Dolgellau, topped at £10,200 for Rhysgog Sarah, a fully trained farm or trials bitch by Red Spot, from Kevin Evans, Brecon, which went to a buyer from Ayrshire.
Making £9,000 was Foinaven Eve, a trials or farm bitch from D.W. Davies, Bryncrug.
Beacon's Lass, an 18-month-old bitch, also from Messrs Evans, sold for £7,700 to a Co Meath buyer.
Mo, a fully trained daughter of Preseli Jack, consigned by L Harries, Crymych, made £7,000 and is heading to the USA.
D. Bevan, Builth Wells, sold Glen, a hill dog also eligible for nurseries, for £6,900 to a buyer from Gwent.
Ivy, a fully trained Huntaway bitch from E. Rees, Rhayader, sold for £7,600, which is thought to be the highest price for a Huntaway sold at auction in the UK.
Topping the partly-trained section at £9,100, and taking the second top price of the day, was Cefneithin Roxy, by Llanfarian Merk from S.C. Jones, Corwen.
The pup section topped at £2,750 for four-month-old Rhydarw Rose from Messrs Evans, which is heading to Shetland.
Averages – fully trained, £3,842; partly trained, £2,100; pups, £862; overall, £2,407 (81% clearance).
Auctioneers: Farmers Marts (R.G. Jones).
Winter Warmers top at 3,000gns
Suffolks led the trade at 3,000gns at the Winter Warmers sale of in-lamb ewes at Melton Mowbray for the breed champion, a shearling ewe from Hallam and Eggleston, Loughborough.
Shearling ewes from Stephen Coldbald, Sudbury, topped at 1,000gns with Suffolk ewe lambs to 450gns for G. and E. Beddie, Swaffham.
Inter-breed champion was a Blue Texel ewe lamb, Blue Diamond Jewel from Anita Padfield, Great Yarmouth, which sold for 900gns.
Blue Texels shealings sold to 720gns for Premier Heaven from Robert Mawer and Emma Benge, Kelby, with the reserve champion, an aged ewe, Littlewood Gill, making the same money for Josh Geary, Milton Keyes.
Jennifer Lodge's Heyworth flock, Doncaster, topped the Texels at 850gns for a shearling with ewes from Messrs Cobald selling to 800gns.
A Dutch Spotted aged ewe from S. Ghiorghita, Wilby, sold for 720gns to top the section with ewe lambs selling to 520gns for W. Clarke Livestock, Norwich.
Charolais ewe lambs sold to 450gns for Andrew and Kate McNeil's Katem flock, Doncaster.
The annual production sale of in-lamb commercial ewes from Garfield and Heather Stephens, Kirby Bellars, topped at 470gns for pure Texels shearlings with older ewes to 360gns.
Auctioneers: Melton Mowbray Market.
Bentham dairy sale tops at £3,200 twice
The Christmas dairy sale at Bentham was judged by Aubrey Greenhalgh, Elswick, and Luke Mellin, Preesall, who awarded the championship to Mike Lawrence from P.D. and B.S. Lawrence, Grange over Sands, with their pedigree heifer, Lynholme Renegade Gypsy.
It sold 30 days calved and giving 31 litres, to Mr Mellin at the day's top price of £3,200.
David Wright, Berryholme, took the reserve rosette, with his first prize heifer from the commercial class, 14 days fresh and giving 27 litres, which sold for £2,500 to Bambers Farms, Cockerham. Heifers averaged £2,451.
Richard and Olivia Gorst, Ellel, sold their heifer, Saltoke Topshot Rebecca 256, to match the champion at £3,200, when going to John and Richard Powley, Penrith.
Cows sold to £2,920 for the pedigree class winner, a second calver, which from Booth Bros, Skipton, David Whitwell, Austwick, at £2,750 with his first prize winning commercial cow, a second calver, at £2,750.
Auctioneers: Richard Turner and Son.
Champion makes 700p/kg at Cockermouth
At Cockermouth's show and sale of prime cattle the judge, Paul Gentry, Woolley Bros, Sheffield, awarded the championship to a British Blue heifer from J.A. Barnett, Shap, which went on to sell for the top price of 700p/kg (£4,396/head).
Messrs Barnett also had the reserve champion, a Limousin heifer which sold for 490p/kg (£3,101). Top price Limousin per head at £3,173 (372p/kg) was from S. Wood, Pennington. Overall 15 lots sold at 400p/kg or more with 32 head selling to £2,500 or more.
Auctioneers: Mitchells
Dairy averages up at Gisburn
A strong dairy trade at Gisburn topped at £3,020 for a pedigree Whitecarr heifer by Peak Altaindigo and out of an 11,798kg Nihao dam from K. T. Cowell, Kirham.
At £2,800 was Hoole Everton Akregloss from R. and M. Cowgill, Preston. Its dam, a Ranger daughter, had given 10,615kg at 4.4% fat in its second lactation. The same vendors topped the pedigree cow class at £2,620 with a Delta Fisherman second calver.
G. and P.S. Fleetwood, Mirfield, led the non-pedigree heifer trade at £2,620, while two from D.A. Wilcock, Blackrod, sold at £2,500 and £2,380.
In the non-pedigree cow class, it was a second calver from A.R. and C.A. Parkinson, Chipping, which topped the section at £2,150.
Averages - Pedigree newly-calved heifers, £2,438; pedigree newly-calved cows, £2,180; non-registered newly-calved heifers, £2,077; non-registered newly-calved cows, £1,875.
Auctioneers: Gisburn Auction Marts
Border and Lakeland sale tops at 4,000gns twice
At the Border and Lakeland Holstein Club sale at Carlisle, the first to sell for 4,000gns was Berryholme Davinci Flo by Davinci, which was not entered in the pre-sale show, from the Wright family, Lancashire. The buyer was Messrs Coulthurst, Preston.
At the same money was Feizor Fuel C Dandy from the Booth family, Feizor. It sold to Baltier Farming, Newton Stewart, which also paid 3,600gns for the winning junior heifer in-milk, Feizor Lambda A Kandie from the same home.
John Greenop, Wigton, Bridgedale Ranger Snapple Red, a daughter of Ranger Red for 3,200gns to the Murray family, Stafford.
The pre-sale show champion was Kepculloch Lambda Trethelma, consigned by Robert Steel, Glasgow, which sold for 2,600gns to the Marshall family, Dumfries.
Reserve Champion was awarded to Newtonmoss Adorable Noreen by Adorable consigned by the Fisher family, Penrith, which went to the Messrs Brough, Carlisle, for 2,500gns.
Averages - 13 cows in-milk, £2,239.36; 107 heifers in-milk, £2,482.91; 28 mid/late lactation cows, £1,877.50; 41 heifer calves, £573.14.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Flying store cattle trade at Lancaster
Leading the trade at Lancaster's sale of store cattle at £2,120 was K. and D.E. Woodhouse, Ellel, with an Aberdeen-Angus steer at £2,120, with others from the same home making £2,000 three times.
The same vendors sold British Blue steers to £2,100, £2,040 and £2,000 three times.
Younger British Blue steers were in demand, with a pen of four 16 month olds at £1,670/head from T.H. Wensley, Kirkham.
Limousin steers sold to £1,840 for J. Prest and Son, Bay Horse, who also sold Friesian steers to £1,620 for a pair.
Fleckvieh-bred steers from M.J. Waller, Lupton, sold to £1,700 and A.J. and D. Knowles, Kendal, sold Charolais steers to £1,520. Herefords sold to £1,580 for a pair of steers from D.H. and M. Kellet and Sons, Thurnham.
Heifers topped at £1,860 for a Simmental from I.D. Bailey, Preston. G. Sagar and Son, Caton, sold a pen of four Aberdeen-Angus heifers at £1,740, with Pilling Hall at the same price for a single Aberdeen-Angus.
British Blue heifers saw R. Capstick and Son, Ingleton, sell to £1,720 for a trio. Messrs Wensley sold 16-month-old British Blue heifers to £1,520.
Averages – Steers, £1,604; heifers, £1,422.
Auctioneers: North West Auctions.
Strong dairy trade at Sedgemoor
The entry of almost 150 autumn calving cows and heifers at Sedgemoor's dairy sale topped at £3,675 for the second calver, Braden Score Helen, which was part of the first consignment to disperse Paul and Anna Brunt's flying herd, Bridport, as a result of their tenancy ending.
Their 30 July to September-calved cows and heifers to include all ages and faults averaged £1,903.
At £3,045, was the commercial fresh second lactation Bomaz Altatopshot daughter from Coombes Manor Farm, Bridgwater.
The same vendor topped the calved heifers with two heifers by Stantons Chief and Peak Altashazam at £2,782.50 and £2,730 respectively.
The continued dispersal for Bowditch, Honiton, saw second lactation cows at £2,782.50 for Otterwyn Harvest Smut GP83.
Rea and Son, Herefordshire, sold two calved heifers Clenchers R2 D2 Whiteheather 2 and Clenchers Applejax Stocking 3, both for £2,625.
A consignment of 30 organic cows and heifers from Raymond Farming, Beaminster, averaged £2,100 selling to £2,467.50 three times for commercial second-calvers by Glamour Achieve, September third-calvers and October second-calvers.
A small entry of in-calf heifers sold to £1,732.50 for P. Wedden and Partners, Credition, with Braden Scenic Fancymaid.
Averages – 179 mainly autumn calved cows including A lot heifer calves, £2,378; 57 calves heifers including A lot heifer calves, £2,474; 2 Hereford bulls, £1,775; 74 yearling heifers, £851; 91 heifer calves, £428; 418 head, £1,562.
Auctioneers: Greenslade Taylor Hunt.
Store cattle to £2,000 at Kirkby Stephen
The sale of store cattle at Kirkby Stephen topped at £2,000 twice, both times for Limousin cross heifers from Messrs Pickles, Chapel le Dale, who also sold Limousin cross heifers to £1,985 and £1,935 and averaged £1,981 for six heifers.
Steers sold to £1,955 for a Limousin cross from Messrs Hodgson, Shap, who also sold British Blue cross steers to £1,935.
Bank House Farms, Carnforth, sold Limousin cross heifers to £1,900 twice and £1,885 seven times to average a £1,761.25 for 30 Limousin cross heifers.
Holstein Friesian steers sold to £1,400 for a pen of three from Messrs Longrigg, Heights, with their run of 10 Holstein/Friesian steers averaging £1,361.
Average – 70 head, £1,720.90.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
