Reserve champion from Messrs Allen, £6,500
Reserve champion makes £6,500 at Kirkby Stephen
SUCKLED calves peaked at £6,500 at the annual show and sale at Kirkby Stephen where a total of 11 entries sold for £3,000 and above.
Trade topper at £6,500 was the reserve champion, a seven-month-old Limousin cross heifer from Messrs Allen, Thornton-le-Dale. Sired by Haltcliffe Doctor, it is out of a British Blue cross Limousin dam that was champion at this sale back in 2016.
The similarly-aged second-prize Limousin cross heifer from Messrs Brown, Asby, realised £4,400 when sold to Skelton-based Amy Wilson.
Messrs Brown sold another two Limousin heifers for £3,900 apiece, with both going to Messrs Slack, Penrith.
Messrs Brown sold a total of 47 calves to average £2,211.06, which included the champion which sold to the judges, Charlotte and Georgia Davies, Leicestershire, for £3,000.
Messrs Marston, Kirkby Stephen, sold a British Blue cross heifer to Messrs Slack for £3,900.
Steers reached £2,520 for an 11-month-old Limousin from Messrs Marston which sold to Messrs Smith, Carnforth, while British Blue steers topped at £2,390 for a 10-month-old from Messrs Beveridge, Tow Law.
In all, heifers sold to average £1,841.40 with steers at £1,812.48.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Beltex are best at Bentham
STORE lambs met the dearest trade of the season at Bentham where an overall average of £127.02 was set.
With buyers present from Wales, Lincoln, East Yorkshire and the West Country as well as locally, a top of £180/head was paid for a pen of Beltex from J. McAulay, Hawick.
A.J. Haggas, Skipton, sold Beltex lambs to £175/head with Beltex from J. and G. Sinclair, Heriot, to £166/head.
Hill lambs reached £150/head for Cheviots from High Oxen Fell, Coniston, while Mules sold to £137/head for a pen from J. Stenton, Pickering.
Horned lambs peaked at £130/head for a run of Scottish Blackface from J. Kay and Sons, Oxton, Lauder.
Auctioneers: Bentham Auction Mart.
Breeding cattle hit £7,000
A TOTAL of 997 breeding cattle sold through United Auctions' Stirling centre where a Limousin cross heifer with bull calf at foot from Craig and Katreen Malone, Cardenden, Fife, topped the entry at £7,000.
Next best at £6,800 was a British Blue cross heifer with heifer calf from John McAlister, Banknock, Stirlingshire, while Messrs Malone sold further entries for £6,500 twice.
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Cows peaked at £5,300 for a Charolais with heifer calf from Messrs McArthur, Stirling, while cows with bull calves from both Messrs Warnock, Biggar, and Messrs Clarke, Lockerbie, made £5,000.
The dispersal of Salers cows with calves from W. Evans, Stranraer, reached £5,300, £5,200 and £5,000 twice.
The dispersal from J. and M. Teague, Balerno, Edinburgh, led the spring-calving heifers at £4,800 twice for Limousins as well bulling heifers, at £3,500, for British Blues.
In-calf cows sold to £3,000 for Aberdeen-Angus from R. and A. Tinto, Galashiels.
Auctioneers: United Auctions.
Top of 4,300gns for Walkabout dairy dispersal
A CROWD of pedigree enthusiasts and commercial producers gathered at Exeter market for the dispersal of the Walkabout dairy herd on behalf of E. Gay and Son, Axminster, Devon.
Topping the entry at 4,300gns, when sold to David and Claire Jones, Wiltor herd, Magor, Caldicot, was a second-calver from the Blackrose family named Walkabout Altamagique Blackrose 3 VG87.
Messrs Hodges, Blackdown herd, Honiton, paid 4,000gns for Walkabout Tatoo Raven.
Making 3,800gns was a Kings-Ransom Dynasty daughter, Walkabout Dynasty Ona, which sold to John and Tracey Cann. Highampton.
In-calf heifers peaked at 3,000gns for a Siemers Wolf Hulu daughter, while bulling heifers hit 2,300gns.
Heifer calves sold to 1,050gns.
Averages
76 cows and calved, £3,152.69; 28 in-calf heifers, £2,257.50; 24 bulling heifers, £1,478.75; 15 yearling heifers, £1,153.60; 17 calves, £752.29.
Auctioneers: Norton and Brooksbank and Kivells.
Fennshall entries top at Shrewsbury
HEADING up the October show and sale of dairy cattle at Shrewsbury was a heifer named Fennshall Chase Bluebell from Messrs Jones, Whitchurch, which calved a week before the sale and realised £4,200.
Messrs Jones also sold the reserve champion, another heifer named Fennshall Chase Brenda, for £4,020.
Next best at £3,820 was the third-prize cow, Wolston Summerfest Whitetime VG86 from A.D. and R.M. Thomas, Lutterworth, while the second-prize cow, Cracking Shadow Kitty GP84 from C. and S.A. Brassington, Roden, realised £3,450.
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A heifer from Guto Lewis, Oswestry, sold for £3,350 while K.E. and M.E. Mills, Belper, sold Bullsmoor Rita 105 for £3,320.
A commercial heifer from M. T. Jones, Oswestry, just 12 days calved, reached £3,280. This was matched by the pre-sale champion, a cow named Bentleyford Cosmo Faith VG87 from Rob Higgins, Longnor, who was winning the Bill Higgins Cup, donated by the great-grandfather for the fourth time in five years.
A run of dry cows from the dispersal of J. R. James, St Martins, peaked at £2,450 for a Fleckvieh cross due in November.
Averages: 8 cows, £3,095; 21 heifers, £2,902, 8 dry cows, £2,012.
Auctioneers: Halls.
Pedigree heifer leads Market Drayton
A TOP price of £4,200 was paid at Market Drayton's October dairy day for the first-prize pedigree heifer from Stubbs Partners, Whitgreave.
Whitgreave Chase Sally was one of three from Stubbs Partners that sold to average £3,983.
The champion, a commercial heifer from R.W. and E.E. Edwards and Sons, Whitchurch, sold for £4,050, with this run of four heifers averaging £3,593.
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Hilltop Farming, Northwich, sold a heifer for £4,050 and topped the cow entry at £4,000 with the first-prize winner, a third-calver, Budworth Radical Queen 2.
A commercial heifer from O.C. Whittaker and Sons, Tabley, also made £4,000.
Averages: Cows, £3,052; heifers, £3,367.
Auctioneers: Gwilym Richards and Market Drayton Market.
Warrior tops online sale
BEEF Shorthorns peaked at £16,700 in an online sale on behalf of Alfie Shaw, Co Tyrone.
Selling to Messrs Steen, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, was Glebefarm Warrior, a Burnside Thor son bred from the Millerston Jamboree-sired Glebefarm Duchess Roxy.
Close behind at £15,500 was Glebefarm Warrior which is out of Glebefarm Jackie Rose and sired by Galla Sonic. It sold to Messrs Farmer, Lambour, West Berkshire.
Messrs Richardson, Co Armagh, paid £7,500 for the dearest of the females, an in-calf heifer, Glebefarm Jackie Vivacious. This Ballunluig Robbie daughter is in-calf to Burnside Thor.
Glebefarm Wizard, another by Burnside Thor, sold to South Eastern Cattle Breed Society, Co Tipperary, for £6,900.
A small entry from Libby and Lucy Clarke, Co Armagh, reached £4,000 for the Glebefarm Schumacher-sired heifer calf, Maralin Countess Myrtle, which sold to Messrs McMillan, Rothesay, Isle of Bute.
Averages – Glebefarm – 6 bulls, £8,916.66; 6 heifers, £5,366.66; Maralin – 4 maiden heifers, £2,562.50.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Swaledale draft ewes hit £3,600 at Kirkby Stephen
BREEDING sheep selling through Kirkby Stephen peaked at £3,600/head for a pen of two- and three-crop Swaledale ewes from Rob Hutchinson, Barnard Castle.
The pen of three sold to Messrs Handley, Chapel le Dale, with the same home selling further pens for £850/head to Messrs France, Chipping, and £580/head to Messrs Newhouse, Long Preston.
Messrs Hutchinson sold 12 Swaledale draft ewes to average £1,389.17/head.
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A pair of three-crop ewes from Messrs Hallam, Houghton in Riversdale, made £2,100/head selling to Messrs Hutchinson, Kirkby Stephen, as the run of 32 two- to six-crops levelled at £359.60/head.
Continental sheep reached £470/head twice, for Texel crosses from Messrs Fawcett, South Stainmore, and again for pure Texel shearlings from Messrs Coulthard, Barnard Castle.
Gimmer lambs hit £230/head for two pens of 10 Swaledales from Messrs Bland, Gaisgill, which were bought by Messrs Lancaster, Skipton.
A final run of breeding rams topped at £1,300 for a two-shear Beltex cross from Messrs Scott, Northallerton.
Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.
Dairy cattle to £3,800
THERE was strong demand for dairy cattle at Penrith where a top of £3,800 was paid for a British Friesian heifer from W. and J. Bell, Wigton.
It sold to Mr Askew, Kendal, giving 32 litres having calved 12 days previously and contributed to Messrs Bells average of £3,200 for four British Friesian heifers.
Holstein heifers peaked at £3,600 for a 32-litre heifer that calved 10 days prior from A. and J.M. Forster, Wigton, which sold to R. Brough, also Wigton.
R.G. and W. Whitfield, Wigton, paid £3,550 for a heifer from T. Shaw, Dalston.
That £3,550 was matched by a Dairy Shorthorn cross Holstein heifer from Messrs Fisher, Carlisle.
A fourth-calver from W. Williamson, Appleby, made £3,400 selling to W.H. Brass, Penrith, with a second-calver from D. Graham, Penrith, selling to Messrs Hunter, Penrith, for £3,300.
Auctioneers: Penrith and District Farmers Mart.
Jenkins family's rams lead at Dolgellau
WELSH Mountain rams peaked at 11,000gns and 8,500gns at the second sale at Dolgellau for entries from E.W., M. and D. Jenkins, Talybont, Aberystwyth.
The pen leader and top price sold to R.J. Roberts and Son, Tywyn, Gwynedd, and the other sold to T.H. and A.B. Jones, Machynlleth, Powys.
Messrs Jenkins' pen sold to average £4,230, which included the third and fourth-highest prices of the day.
A 7,800gns entry sold to R.H. Morris and Son, Tregeiriog, Llangollen, with others to 7,500gns twice purchased by both I.R. Williams, Bangor, Gwynedd, and I.G.M. and M.W. Jones, Aberhosan, Powys.
Auctioneers: Farmers Marts.
Vavavoom leads at Bentham
A LIMOUSIN heifer, Gallaber Vavavoom, topped the November sale of beef breeding cattle at Bentham when it went under the hammer at £7,000.
The two-year-old Gallaber Leo daughter from Ian and Tommy Sedgwick, Burton in Lonsdale, Carnforth, sold to Mark Nelson, Bentham.
Gallaber Ally, a 19-month-old Procters Pierre daughter, sold to Messrs Hutchinson, Barnard Castle, for £5,000.
A mixed entry of cows with calves saw a third-calver from Chris Heald, Ingleton, lead at £3,900, while in-calf heifers hit £2,300 for spring-calving Aberdeen-Angus cross Blue Greys from Messrs Kempson, Rossendale.
Auctioneers: Bentham Auction Mart.
