Craven Dairy Auction (18 head)
A decent number forward for the May sale however with just a slight lack in quality hampering the trade, however Tony Swires was on the receiving end of the best trade seeing his Reserve Champion reach £1850 and his other heifer reaching £1680, with Brian Moorhouse seeing £1680 for his straight heifer and his ¾ Holstein ¼ Jersey Cow selling to £1520 to top the cow class.
Mark Smith of Winterburn saw his home bred heifer reach £1650 on a day which saw an up and down sort of trade.
Prize Awards: Newly Calven Heifers: 1st J Wellock 2nd A Swires & Son; 3rd Jennings Farmers
Newly Calven Cows: 1st GB Moorhouse
Coloured Heifers: 1st SM&MT Stapleton 2nd GD&JC Holme
Champion – J Wellock Reserve – A Swires & Son
1st Quality Newly Calven Heifers (av £1585) to £1850 A Swires & Son
2nd Quality Newly Calven Heifers (av £1285): to £1380 J Wellock
Newly Calven Cows to £1520 GB Moorhouse
Incalf Cows:
to £900 WA Brown
Rearing Calves to £415 (60)
B&W av £83 Cont av £360.20 Native av £256.2
Stronger numbers of calves forward today with a cracking trade had by all. Johnny and Simon Moon of Wigglesworth topped the trade with his bulls at £415 & £410 in the British Blue bull section. Fred Houseman of Church Farm Enterprises had the pick of the trades with three of his heifers at £400 and Moon’s seeing their two heifers reach £390.
Natives were a pleasure to sell also with £320 stopping the best native bull from Fred Houseman and £275 for a heifer from the same home. Black and whites despite the average being less the price for what was offer was stronger still, with James Gooch seeing his 8 week old Bulls reach £170 and £160 respectively with fortnight old calves £85 - £100 for most types which saw the bobby calves easing the average slightly.
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £356.25) to £400 PJ Bolland;
Brit Blue x (Av £365) to £415 JR&MJ Moon
Aberdeen Angus (Av £307.50) to £320 Church Farm Enterprises
Shorthorn (Av £79) to £125 Flasby Estates
Black & White (Av £83) to £170 J Gooch
Heifer Calves
Ab Angus (Av £222.3) to £275 Church Farm Enterprises
British Blue (Av £380) to £400x3 Church Farm Enterprises
Lim (Av £312.50) to £350 N Shaw & Sons