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SALES SUMMARY Red and White to 2,900gns at SAC


Averages: Cows £1,606.50; Fresh heifers £1,548.75; Bulls £1,281; In-calf heifers £1,516.20; Served heifers £1,060.50; Bulling heifers £883 Auctioneers: GREENSLADE TAYLOR HUNT Auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt report a selective trade at the Annual May Collective Sale at Sedgemoor Auction Centre as a result of a reduced confi dence in the milk price and more wet weather. However quality was still in demand with the sale topping at 2,900gns for Designer Holsteins’ superb red and white heifer, Penrikka Artie Culture Red, who is out of a VG89 second calver. She travelled to Wales with the day’s top priced cow Noremead Monarch Warmer 3 from D J & Z E Parrett’s herd dispersal who sold for 2,300gns. Other cows from their fl ying herd sold to 1,820gns for Moorshard Outbound Dazzle 78 and 1,800gns for the calved heifer out of a Noremead bred dam. Other calved heifers from the collective sale sold to 1,800gns for P J Andrews Beneknowle Seaver Jay 91. L W R & K A Hill continued to disperse their herd as they calve to top at 1,680gns for the calved heifer Sampfordel Azure Sunbeam, Ray Darby is doing the same and sold Friesian second calvers to 1,560gns.


A & P Bradford, having sold their dairy herd, dispersed their remaining in-calf heifers. They were in-calf and due July to August selling to 1,520gns on three occasions for daughters of Moorshard Omen. Bulling heifers from Spicer Partners’ Gomershay herd sold to 1,060gns for Gomershay Fever Lucy 3 by Crackholm Fever out of a VG88 dam.


Heifer calves from the Parrett’s dispersal topped at 780gns for a daughter of Marcroft Toystory Tripoli by Dinnaton Altadetroit. A Holstein bull from D J & V M Norman sold to 1,280gns for Ciderhouse Statesman by Shottle.


£3,000 Average at Cramar Dispersal


Averages: 125 lots £ 3,043.48; 84 cows & calved heifers £ 3,445.87 (incl 33 calves @ £1,862.00); 20 served heifers £2,863.87; 20 maiden heifers £1,660.05; 1 bull calf £504.00 Auctioneers: NORTON & BROOKSBANK One of the best Holstein herds to be sold for some considerable time attracted premium bids when Roger and Dianne Steeples sold their prize winning Cramar herd on farm at Kettering, Northants. The impressive catalogue attracted more than 50 buyers from throughout the UK from Scotland to Devon, Essex and Sussex, and a particularly strong contingent from South and West Wales who were keen contenders for many of the choicest lots. However, the top animal stayed nearer to home with Blaise Tomlinson, Nanpantan, Leicester giving 11,000gns for the superb fourth calver, Cramar Affi rmed Cutes. This lovely cow was considered by Roger Steeples to be the best he had bred and was the fourth member of the family in succession to be classifi ed with 94 points or more. Her daughters were also in great demand with her Butz-Butler Atwood Brady daughter being the joint top priced calf at 5,500gns and her three ET daughters by Crackholm Fever making 6,200, 5,900 and 5,000gns respectively.


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The Misha family were in great demand with Nev and Rhian Roberts of the Dulais herd, Drefach, Llanelli giving 10,000gns for the 87 point two-year old AS RD Misha Jordan, jointly owned with Sam Wake and Andrew Holliday. Her maternal sister, Cramar Shottle Misha VG87 who had won many prizes as a calf made 9,000gns to Oliver Williams who is establishing a new herd at Covington, Cambridgeshire. Her outstanding heifer calf by Toc-Farm Goldsun made 5,500gns to Ffi on Thomas, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.


Elwyn and Cheryl Thomas of the Gatrog herd, Llanelli acquired a number of the best cattle, giving 8,500gns for the freshly calved heifer Cramar Sid Fran and 8,000gns for another cow of the same family Cramar I Affi rmed Faith VG89. Once again the value of breeding good pedigree cattle was amply demonstrated and with an excellent sale arena on the farm and free refreshments being dispensed by the vendors, both buyers and the many other spectators enjoyed a great occasion.


LEADING PRICES AT CRAMAR Consignment


Purchaser


Cramar Affi rmed A Cutes E T Tomlinson AS RD Misha G Jordan Cramar Shottle Misha Cramar Sid Fran


Cramar I Affi rmed Faith E & C Thomas Success for Smellows herd


Averages: Fresh heifers £2,025; fresh cows £1,462; in-calf heifers £1,435; maiden heifers aged 7-12 month £704 Auctioneers: CCM AUCTIONS The Smellows Holstein pedigree dairy herd of Jeremy


Taylor at Small House Farm, Broughton, provided a local championship success at Skipton Auction Mart’s opening May Craven Dairy Auction. Mr Taylor, a regular title winner in the dairy ring at Skipton, secured his latest victory with his fi rst prize fresh heifer, a home-bred daughter of the Dutch sire Hol-Stiens Jumper – the only one in the Smellows holding – out of Smellow Juanita 2, who averaged 11,400kgs at 4.53%F over three lactations at Small House.


Herself giving 28kgs, the 10-days calved champion sold for joint top price of £2,100 to Alf Townsend, of Southfi eld, Burnley. The price was equalled by both the second and third prize fresh heifers from the Senterprise pedigree herd of Fred and Mark Houseman, who trade as Church Farm Enterprises at Burton Top Farm, near Burton Leonard. The runner-up, also reserve champion, was from another home-bred family – 22-days calved and giving 32 litres – by the Genus bull Wa-Del Hayden, out of Senterprise Pericles Cindy, who gave 10,000 litres as a heifer and whose own dam produced 45,000 litres over four lactations. Both fell to the same buyer, Skipton regular H Goodall, of Tong,


N & R Roberts J O Williams E & C Thomas


Gns


11,000 10,000 9,000 8,500 8,000


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