Rearing Calves to £515
B&W av £82 Cont av £355.58 Native av £165
Calves were once again good to sell with all calves selling to a strong trade with continentals and natives looking cheap on paper, however for what they were the trade was strong. A Strong limousin Suckler bred calf sold to the top price of £515 from Messrs Worthington, Ramsbottom.
SKIPTON MAY CALF SHOW NEXT WEEK 18th May
Bull Calves
Limousin x (Av £325) to £325 EJ Fort
Brit Blue x (Av £326) to £515 EB&JR Worthington
Simmental to £425 HJ&K Blackwell
Charolais to £340 S Bosworth
Aberdeen Angus (Av £145) to £145 M Fewster
Saler to £300 RL Wright & Sons
Black & White (Av £82) to £170 JG Hall & Son
Heifer Calves
Hereford to £190 HJ&K Blackwell
Brit Blue x to £380 ML&JE Kayley
Shorthorn to £55 M Stone
Craven Dairy Auction (23 head)
A smaller show for the early month show and sale of dairy cattle today with the balance of supply and demand finely balanced around the ring. A fall again in the commercial leagues of heifers with a number of good heifers sliding out of the £1,500’s into the £1,400’s. However a breath of fresh air with the Wood family from Holcombe stirred proceedings with three fine heifers topping today’s trade at £1820.
Cows from DL Leeming Ltd and Calvert Bros were up for grabs with Mark and Karen Calvert reaching £1650 for a 3rd Calver with a pedigree boasted some 13 gens of VG or EX behind it and was bought by a fine Pedigree Herd from Oakworth. David Leeming from Burnt Yates hit £1420 for a new calved heifer, arguably a bit back on the fortnight for this stamp of goods.
Two strong Incalf heifers from I Olivers & Partners looked the dearest things on the day at £1380 and £1160.
Judge – Stephen and Malcolm Abbott
Prize Awards:
Newly Calven Heifers: 1st KT Wood & Son 2nd J Wellock 3rd KT Wood & Son
Newly Calven Cows: 1st 2nd & 3rd Calvert Bros
In-Calf Heifers: 1st & 2nd I Olivers & Partners
Champion – Calvert Bros Reserve – KT Wood & Son
Newly Calven Heifers (8): av £1372.5 to £1820 KT Wood & Son
Newly Calven Cows (7): av £1440 to £1650 Calvert Bros
Pedigree Newly Calven Heifers (6): av £1416 to £1480 J Wellock
Incalf Heifers (2): av £1270 to £1380 I Olivers & Partners