MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 27TH JANUARY 2014
Rearing Calves to £400
B&W av £92.03 Cont av £292.66 Native av £208.33
Craven Dairy Auction (15 head)
BOCM Pauls Dairy Sale once again well supported with plenty of punters ringside and a flying trade to match.
Rearing Calves to £400
B&W av £92.03 Cont av £292.66 Native av £208.33
55 Calves forward for the final sale of January with 15 +buyers filling the ringside, black and whites once again good to sell with Peter and Jonathon Sharp achieving £150 for a Pure Holstein Bull. The 14 Blue Calves forward achieved a good average with Bulls averaging £369 and topped at £400 for a Flareon Son from Peter and Shaun Sowray. Limousin’s were in shorter supply with Mark Smith, Winterburn making £260 for a 3mth old Bull which ended up heading to Clitheroe.
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £250) to £260 M&R Smith
Brit Blue x (Av £369) to £400 A Sowray & Son
Saler (Av £237) to £264 RL Wright
Black & White (Av £92.03) to £150 P Sharp & Son
Heifer Calves
Limousin x (Av £110) to £110 Townhead Fm Products
Brit Blue x (Av £256) to £330 PJ Bolland
Shorthorn (Av £150) to £150 JR CJ & D Drake
Saler (Av £155) to £155 P Sharp & Son
Craven Dairy Auction (15 head)
BOCM Pauls Dairy Sale once again well supported with plenty of punters ringside and a flying trade to match. Richard Crabtree of Otley was the man to judge and David Lawson was the winner with a Home bred Pedigree heifer with Richard Walker of East Morton a close second. All the milkers sold to well above predictions with punters aplenty, Brian Moorhouse of Bellbusk set the trade with a Week Calved Pedigree Heifer making £2300 and this trade continued right the way through, even Incalf heifers sold strongly with Mick Corner of Easingwold receiving £1850 for Pure Holstein incalf to Grosvenor Sex Semen.
Next Dairy Sale: 10th February
Prize Awards: Newly Calven Heifers: 1st & 3rd A Lawson & Son 2nd RW&M Walker
In-Calf Heifers: 1st & 3rd MGT Corner 2nd R&CR Mitchell
Jersey: 1st G Woodmansey & Son
Champion – A Lawson & Son Reserve – RW&M Walker
Newly Calven Heifers: to £2220 av £2010 RW&M Walker
Pedigree Newly Calven Heifers: to £2500 av £2103 A Lawson & Son
Pedigree Newly Calven Jersey Heifer £950 G Woodmansey & Son
Pedigree Bull: 1850gns A Lawson & Son