Rearing Calves to £405 (60)
B&W av £70.13 Cont av £322.58 Native av £205.65
Handy show of calves and a healthy ringside of buyers saw a good trade for what was on offer. Black and Whites were not quite as spicy as last week but not quite the quality to match either. An 8 week old bull topped at £190 from Alf and Andrew Townsend with Michael Heron’s 3 week old Friesian bulls at £112 and £102 with Brian Moorhouse of Bell Busk making £110 with a handy Holstein calf.
Johnny Moon of Wigglesworth topped the overall price with his hut reared calves reaching £405 and £390, however James Gooch wasn’t far behind with his British Blue heifer at £390 selling to Abbot Bros of Dacre and John Blackwell of Gargrave reaching £350 with his young Simmental Heifer. The true trade of heifers was hampered today by a few second rate goods later on, but looking to next week best heifers look like being a cracking trade yet again.
Natives hit some higher gears today averaging over £200 for the first time in a while with a number of seasonal buyers just starting to push the native calves further with a good strong AA X bull from AP Townsend hitting £300 today.
NB: Next Week is the Spring Calf Show and Bank Holiday which will see a large turnout of buyers for all classes of Calf with a big numbers needed to fill orders.
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £190) to £190 EJ Fort
Brit Blue x (Av £337.83) to £405 JR&MJ Moon
Aberdeen Angus (Av £248.3) to £300 AP Townsend
Swedish Red (Av £40) to £48 M Fewster
Saler (Av £200) to £200 RL Wright & Son
Black & White (Av £70.16) to £190 AP Townsend
Heifer Calves
Simmental x (Av £350) to £350 HJ&K Blackwell
Ab Angus (Av £163.33) to £190 DL DM& J Heron
British Blue (Av £306.25) to £390 J Gooch
Lim (Av £310) to £310 AP Townsend
Craven Dairy Auction (7 head)
A quiet show of milkers for the Early April sale however Peter Baul rolled in with a cracking heifer from his Pedigree Ravensgate Herd. The heifer sired by a young bull Huddlestone Strauss (a De-Su Osmond Son) was giving 32 Kgs and calved 15 days sailed up to £1900 where it eventually found a home with Roger and Jack Naylor of Langbar, Ilkley.
A handy trade for what was on offer today with Baul’s other heifer getting away at £1600, Robin Jennings of Harrogate at £1500 with his wearing sort of heifer and Rusby Dairies at £1520 for a sweet but a well-aged heifer. Heifers av £1630.
Next Fortnight is the YORKSHIRE HOLSTEIN CLUB SHOW AND SALE alongside the Usual CCM Dairy Sale Inc. In Milk, Incalf, Maiden and Bulls. There is also a calf rearing event being hosted by AHDB Dairy in the Exhibition hall with everybody invited to discuss their heifer rearing systems and queries from 10am to 3.30pm.
Judge – Richard Webster
Prize Awards: Newly Calven Heifers: 1st M Baul & Partners, 2nd Rusby Dairies 3rd GB Jennings
Newly Calven Cows: 1st J Wellock, 2nd B Haigh
Champion – M Baul & Partners Reserve – Rusby Dairies
Newly Calven Heifers (av £1630 ): to £1900 M Baul & Partners
Newly Calven Cows: to £1180 J Wellock