81 Rearing Calves.
Rearing Calves to £710 (81)
B&W av £81 Cont av £413 Native av £260.5
A fantastic show of rearing calves today with a top quality entry from all supporters. The top honours of the day went to a suckler bred calf from Phillip Summers, Clayton which rocketed to a new auction record of £710. The day was full of other high prices with Shaun & Peter Sowray taking the next top with a Limousin Bull peaking at £630. Other vendors such as Fred Houseman and John Marshall of Monk Ing had some strong runs with an average of £434 for British Blue Bulls. Strong prices were also received for Aberdeen Angus calves with bulls averaging £251 and Heifers averaging to £268.
Credit to all the entered and congratulations to the prize winners.
Calf Show
Class 1 – Brit Blue Bull
1st P Summers Agriculture 2nd A Sowray & Son
Class 2 – Brit Blue Heifer
1st A Sowray & Son 2nd A Sowray & Son 3rd JP&KE Hartley
Class 3 – Limousin Bull
1st A Sowray & Son 2nd RD Metcalfe
Class 4 – Limousin Heifer
1st RD Metcalfe & Son
Class 7 – Native x Bull
1st JC Marshall 2nd JR CJ&D Drake 3rd K&M Berry
Class 8 – Native x Heifer
1st Church Farm Enterprises 2nd DL DM J Heron 3rd JP&KE Hartley
Class 9 – B&W Bull
1st DL DM J Heron
Class 10 – Cont x Male Stirk
1st Church Farm Enterprises 2nd Church Farm Enterprises 3rd JC Marshall
Class 11 – Cont x Heifer Stirk
1st JC Marshall 2nd Church Farm Enterprises
Class 12 – Native Stirk
1st M&R Smith
Champion – P Summers Agriculture
Reserve – A Sowray & Son
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £532.5) to £630 A Sowray & Son
Brit Blue x (Av £434) to £710 Phillip Summers
Aberdeen Angus x (Av £251.67) to £280 JC Marshall
MRI (Av £77.50) to £80 L&A Watson
Shorthorn to £235 JR CJ & D Drake
Black & White (Av £81) to £200 M&R Smith
Heifer Calves
Limousin x (Av £257.4) to £305 RD Metcalfe
Brit Blue x (Av £345.71) to £380 JC Marshall
Aberdeen Angus (Av £268.33) to £290 JP&KE Hartley
Saler to £230 RL Wright & Sons