Rearing Calves to £660 (91)
B&W av £81.42 Cont av £369.43 Native av £221.65
A superb show of calves met by a strong trade with a number of high prices right through the sale. The Christmas presale show was kindly judged by ringside regular Paul Drinkall and found a fine British Blue bull calf from Shaun and Peter Sowray to be champion and went on to be the day’s top price at £660 with another noted price of £600 for the first calf in the ring. With strong prices made by other regular vendors helping British Blue bulls to an average of £434.17 and Continental average of £369.43.
Natives were also good to sell today with heifers chased particularly
hard by farmer buyers with bulls not far behind and averaging a respectable
£221.65 right through for Angus, Hereford and Shorthorns.
The best black and whites were good to sell with PA Whittaker of
Stortiths selling his Friesian bull to £230 and most middle of the road sorts
nicely into £70-£80 with shelly goods around £40- £50.
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Champion: A
Sowray & Son
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Reserve:
Church Farm Enterprises
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Principle Prices: £660, £600, £560, £440 A Sowray & Son; £520, £510,
£500, £480, £460, £430, £430, £395, £355 Church Farm Enterprises: £380, £370,
£350 MP Jennings.
Bull Calves
Limousin x
(Av £282) to £330 RD Metcalfe & Son, Brearton
Brit Blue x
(Av £434) to £660 A Sowray & Son, Bishop Thornton
Shorthorn x
(Av £175) to £180 A Lawson & Son, Arthington
Aberdeen
Angus (Av £219) to £250 JP&KE Hartley, Bolton Abbey
Hereford X
(Av £175) to £200 K&M Berry & Son, Thornton In Craven
Black &
White (Av £81.42) to £230 P&A Whittaker, Bolton Abbey
Heifer Calves
Limousin x
(Av £285) to £300 JC Marshall & Son, West End
Brit Blue x
(Av £325.3) to £420 Church Farm Enterprises, Burton Leonard
Aberdeen
Angus (Av £268.33) to £300 JP&KE Hartley, Bolton Abbey
Hereford x to
£256.67 to £295 K&M Berry & Son, Thornton in Craven
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British Blue Bulls
1st A Sowray & Son
2nd Church Farm Enterprises
3rd Church Farm Enterprises
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British Blue Heifers
1st A Sowray & Son
2nd JP&KE Hartley
3rd A Sowray & Son
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Limousin Bull
1st RD Metcalfe
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Native Bulls
1st JP&KE Hartley
2nd JC Marshall
3rd JC Marshall
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Native Heifer
1st PA Whittaker
2nd K&M Berry & Son
3rd JC Marshall
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Black and White
1st PA Whittaker
2nd JR Dinsdale
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