There is a well known saying, 'no pain, no gain' and that will be ringing true in the minds of Milk Link’s 1,600 producers, who are on the brink of reaping just reward for 12 years of loyalty and investment.Records tumble as buyers flock to Sedgemoor
THE top 10 per cent seasonality sale of dairy cattle at Sedgemoor auction centre recently, attracted a record entry of 237 head, selling to a record 51 buyers.
Top price, at 2,500gns, was achieved by Nick Goss, Devizes, Wiltshire, for a freshly-calved heifer, Checkley Talent Bevereign. This Ladino Park Talent daughter is out of a VG88 dam. It sold, with 22 others, to an undisclosed buyer from Cumbria.
Three more heifers sold at 2,100gns. Top priced cow at 2,100gns was a second calver, Bettiscombe Charisma Cinderella, from R.E. and H.E. Bugler and Partners, Bridport, and by home-bred sire, Outside Charisma.
Other cows sold to 2,020gns and 2,000gns.
Gildave herd dispersal
The sale also included the dispersal of the Gildave herd for D. Gillett and Sons, Suffolk.
The autumn calving cows topped at 1,520gns on four occasions for members of the Spice, Marta and Roseleaf families.
Their in-calf heifers were in strong demand and sold to 1,500gns for Gildave Drake Dianthus, which is due in September to Lakemead Alonso.
An entry of 24 organic bulling heifers from G.W. Persey, sold to 850gns and youngstock from Robin and Michelle Harding’s Westel herd, Weymouth, Dorset, sold to 1,120gns.
AVERAGES
Calved heifers, £1,622.72; calved heifers, £1,708.93; bulls, £1,256.50; in-calf heifers, £1,306.32; bulling heifers, £842.63; yearlings and youngstock, £702; heifer calves, £441. Gildave herd - cows £1,019.50; in-calf heifers, £1,437.88.
Auctioneers: Greenslade Taylor Hunt.
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