Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray sees 5,500gns top

Beef Shorthorn entries peaked at 5,500gns at Melton Mowbray in March. Sale leader was the day’s champion, Hanley Parker a rising two-year old dark roan bull from Daniel Bown, Hanley

Castle, Worcestershire. This Glenisla Zetor son is out of a Chapelton Covenantor daughter and sold to Boulton

Bros, Northampton.

The female trade was led at 2,100gns by Meonhill Flossy Viola a 23-month-old old roan by the 11,000gns Coldrochie Kensington and out of another Covenantorsired dam. Bred by LEP Farms, Waterlooville, Hampshire, she went to A J and C H Wright, Nottinghamshire.

The same vendors then took 2,000gns for Meonhill Blythsome Jazz, a two-year old red and white heifer by Trunley Timber. She went home with A S Labram, Lutterworth.

Averages: three bulls £4,165, two heifers £2,152 (Melton Mowbray Market).

Daniel Bown’s Hanley Parker topped trade at Melton Mowbray at 5500gns, selling to Boulton Brox, Northampton.

The Tollesbury Herd

Bred for Quality and Temperament

Quality Beef Shorthorns grazing alongside the Blackwater estuary on the Essex coast

Mature cow classification average 88 Stock Bull: JEHU of UPSALL

High Health, TB4, Farm Assured

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