68 Rearing Calves to £370
B&W av £66 Cont av £265.90 Native av £153.30
A stronger show forward with black and white calves a good trade throughout with just some young calves dragging the average down. Continentals a straight trade with David Leeming, Burnt Yates having a nice trade throughout with his continental calves. John Marshall of Brays Croft topped the B&W’s with 2 calves over £120. £370 & £355 was reached with 2 Limousin calves presented by Graham Hayton, Bolton Abbey.
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Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £298) to £370 G Hayton & EC Stocks
Brit Blue x (Av £283) to £350 DL Leeming Ltd
Ab Angus (Av £140) to £140 JSS Verity
Black & White (Av £66) to £128 JC&DJ Marshall & Son
Heifer Calves
Limousin x (Av £235) to £250 JC&DJ Marshall
Brit Blue x (Av £207) to £250 MD&HE Wallbank
Ab Angus (Av £135) to £160 JSS Verity
Saler (Av £170) to £190 P Sharp & Son
Craven Dairy Auction (39 head)
Quiet on the milking front, but plenty of faces to sell them to. Brian Moorhouse, Bell Busk had the pick of the bunch with a superb home bred pedigree heifer giving 31kg reaching £2650 to a Mr Clarke of Hampsthwaite. 2nd Prize from Richard Close was another fine specimen with John Howard, Heslaker snapping that up for £2120. Robinson’s of Eldroth were once again making good headway with their HB heifer reaching a handy £2250.
Once again a good packet of cattle in the youngstock section with Messrs Whitaker of Laneshawbridge having a good show of Incalf and maiden heifers forward for sale with £1700 made of one of their March calvers. MGT Corner of Easingwold had the 1st Prize heifer and rightly so with it realising a dizzy £1860.
Prize Awards: Newly Calven Heifers: 1st GB Moorhouse 2nd RH&EA Close 3rd M Baul & Ptnrs
Incalf Heifers: 1st J Whittaker 2nd MGT Corner 3rd J Whittaker
Maiden Heifers: 1st 2nd 3rd J Whittaker
Coloured: 1st D&P Brown
Champion – GB Moorhouse Reserve – RH&EA Close
Newly Calven Heifers: to £2250 av £2125 DR Robinson, Eldroth
Newly Calven Cows: to £1500 D&P Brown, Ramsgill
Pedigree Newly Calven Heifers: to £2650 av £2096 GB Moorhouse, Bell Busk
Incalf Heifers : to £1860 av £1492 MGT Corner, Easingwold
Bulling Heifers (17-22mth): to £1300 av £1117 J Whitaker
Heifer Stirks (6-9mth): to £800 av £609 J Whitaker