Rearing Calves to £445 (53)
B&W av £55 Cont av £316.78 Native av £181.25
A healthy number of calves through the door this Monday with some very heady prices for the best calves today. £445 was the pinnacle today achieved by a belting calf from Shaun Sowray of Bishop Thornton, who also achieved the top price heifer at £380. Not quite the desire on the Limousin bulls today with a top of £350 for a Colin Whitelock calf.
Native calves were only seen in heifer form today with Hartley’s of Bolton Abbey getting their calves away nicely, topping at £190 x2. Black and whites saw a straight trade with Alf Townsend of Southfield Burnley topping at £90.
Principle Prices
£445 A Sowray & Son; £435 Church Farm Enterprises; £430, £425 x2 J&SA Lancaster; £425 Church Farm Enterprises;
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £286.87) to £350 C&SB Whitelock
Brit Blue x (Av £340.94) to £445 A Sowray & Son
Black & White (Av £54) to £90 AP Townsend
Heifer Calves
Simmental x (Av £172.5) to £190 AP Townsend
Ab Angus (Av £181.25) to £190 x2 190 x2 JP&KE Hartley
British Blue (Av £288) to £380 A Sowray & Son
Lim (Av £207.5) to £250 AP Townsend