North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 30th July 2014
Weekly report & newsletter
NWA J36 Dairy Sale & Calf Show Thursday 24th July Dairy Sale Newly Calved Heifers to £2120 Newly Calved Cows to £1900 Heifer Calves to £445 With the largest entry to date, incorporating a part dispersal of organic cows on behalf of J & P A Jackson, a large crowd of buyers were in attendance from throughout the northern counties. The dispersal sale saw mid-lactation 2nd calved cows sell to £1600, £1580, with older cows generally £1200/£1450. The fortnightly collective sale was topped by a heifer from J H towers & Sons, selling at £2120, with others £1900 J & J A Burrow and £1850 W H & J M Robinson. Newly calved cows sold to £1900 from P W & D Swindlehurst with 4th calvers £1520 from M & M Carr. A special entry of heifer calves from Langley Park Farms saw 12 w.o. calves sell to £445, £425, £420 with an abundance of buyers keen to purchase additional youngstock.
Results
Calf Show & Sale
The summer show and sale of calves at J36 Rural Auction centre saw a record entry of 112 Class 1 – Continental Bull forward. Stuart Benn of Beckside Cottage was handed the task of judging a tremendously strong class of calves and a credit to all vendors. A strong class of continental bulls 60 days or 1st Lot 480 from FI & ME Little £400 under was won by Ian Little of Helm Croft showing a Limousin Bull with the Continental heifer 2nd Lot 451 from B Wilson £370 class being won by David Wallbank of Tills Farm showing a British Blue heifer. In the dairy bull 3rd Lot 492 from H Wright & Son £350 class was a strong pen of bulls with the winner being awarded to Robin Nicholson of Green Lane End Farm with a Montbeliarde bull. The overall champion was awarded to Ian Little with Class 2 – Continental Heifer his Limousin Bull Calf. The trade saw all types of continental calves sell to a strong trade with plenty of buyers eager to 1st Lot 533 from Wallbank Farm Ltd £320 buy. The trade for better quality black and whites was back quite a bit in line with other markets 2nd Lot 452 from B Wilson £300 with worst sorts of black and whites in strong demand and a dearer trade. 3rd Lot 510 from B & MJ Nelson £300 The top price calf of the day was the Champion from Ian Little selling to £400 to the Judge Stuart Benn. This was matched by C Dean & LJ Brennand of Clapham selling a 65 day old Class 3 – Dairy Bull British Blue bull to £400 with other best sorts of Continental bulls selling in mid to late £300’s. Continental Heifers sold to £320 for the 1st prized heifer from David Wallbank of Tills Farm with 1st Lot 505 from RJ & P Nicholson £250 a strong demand for people looking for potential breeding replacements. 2nd Lot 528 from Drinkall Bros £65 A good entry of farmer stirks forward meant a strong demand from a ringside of buyers with 3rd Lot 529 from Drinkall Bros £60 plenty could have been sold to vendor’s advantage. Limouisn steers at 10month old from R & BJ Cleasby sold to £655 with heifers from the same home to £510. Four month old Limou- Champion Lot 480 from FI & ME Little sin heifer stirks from Fishwick Brothers of Middle Sadghyll sold to £450 and £430. Full sale report continued on page 3 Thursday 7th August Special entry of organic HF young stock (4-18m old) being second part of dispersal on behalf of J & PA Jackson, Winter Tarn
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