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Bracewell heifer takes top prize


BARGH Bros, of Bracewell, took the Championship at the May Dugdale Nutrition Dairy Show at Gisburn Auction Mart.


Their heifer was two weeks


calved and giving 30kgs and sold to Messrs. Southwell, of Luddenden Foot, Halifax. Reserve champion went to


Sam Tennant, of Thornton, with a beautiful in-calf heifer due to sexed semen for the


end of May. She sold to Tom Shuttleworth, of Rylstone, for £1,980. In-calf heifers from J. Maw-


son sold to £1.650 and from M. Makinson to £1,520. Hol­ stein Freisian heifers calves made to £390 and a very smart Ayrshire calf made to £410 to P. K. Smith, of Southfield. Forty-one head were on


offer and auctioneers were Richard Turner and Son.


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BLUE Wednesday turned out to be anything but for Chipping’s Richard Seed when he landed back-to- back championship and top price successes at the sev­ enth annual show and sale of pedigree British Blue breeding cattle at Skipton Auction Mart. Richard, who trades as R.


Seed & Son at Parsonage Farm, Chipping, saw his first prize-winning 2009-born bull Parsonage Eric progress to become supreme champion at Skipton’s opening 2011 pedigree beef season fix­ ture, courtesy of local judge John Stephenson, of Bordley Green. Eric is a son of Blue Stone


Union Jack and a full brother to the Seeds’ 2010 victor, both being but of the home-bred cow Parsonage Apple Pip.' The same dam was also re­


sponsible for a second Seed bull that headed the prices last year on what was their first ap­ pearance in the Skipton show arena. Fresh off the farm, the


2011 title \vinner returned to Lancashire when joining Matt Townsend, o f Laneshaw-


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Cllthcroe Advertiser & Times,Thursday, June 9,2011 Glitheroc Auction Mart


The Seeds of show success


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; BULLY FOR HIM: Richard Seed with his with his


I Skipton pedigree British ? Blue bull champion.


bridge, Colne, for a show­ to p p in g 3 ,000 gu in ea s (£3,150). Mark and Elaine Hartley,


of Pendle 'View Farm, Rough- lee, achieved two notable sales successes on what was their first-ever visit to the Skipton British Blue fixture. Their third prize 2009-born


bull realised 2,800gns (£2,940) when joining William and


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Mark Keighley, of Leathley, Otley, while a second bull was knocked down for 2,600gns (£2,730) to D. Leeming Ltd, of Harrogate. Skipton’s 2011 pedigree


beef season continues with the annual Limousin highlight - this year a double-header for the first time, with the North­ ern Limousin Extravaganza on Tuesday, May 10th, and


the annual show and sale of pedigree breeding bulls and females on Wednesday. The season culminates on


May 9th.


Wednesday, May 26th, with the Lingfields Beef Cattle Fair, featuring the annual multi-breed show and sale of pedigree beef breeding cattle and Spring breeding bulls. Entries close on Monday,


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Isale of pedigree beef breeding cattle at Skip-


Iton Auction Mart, was Judged by Roger Green, (of Bashall Eaves. The day incorporated


la dispersal sale of cows land calves on behalf of IMessrs R. & A. Wall- jbank, of Slaidbum, with jeight outfits achieving Imore than £2,000 and Ian overall average of |£1,546. They sold to |a top of £2,600 for a ■British Blue cow with IBritish Blue heifer calf, |acquired by R. C. Turn- bull & Son, of Coxwbid, York. Pedigree Brit-


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AUCTIONEER Jonathan Turner, of Richard Turner and Son, noted an increased number of new season lambs on sale at Gisburn on June 2nd, with a trade to match con­ sidering a falling trade in other markets around the North West.


With 320 lambs forward, the


trade averaged out at £95 per head (244p/kg). Topping the market was A. Phillipson, of Briercliffe, with some smashing


Texel lambs achieving £124 per head. Top price per kg went to A. A. & E. Critchley, of Hut­


SHOW judge Dennis Thwaite, of Kirkby Stephen, chose the first prize British Blue bull from Jim Faud, of F. & S. Faud & Son, Great Harwood, as Champion at the Anniversary Show of calves at Gisburn Auction Mart. The bull calf went onto sell


for the highest price of the day at £435 to John Swann, of Little Ouseburn, who also went home with the second and third prize Blue bulls from Tom Holden, of Chaiigley, and R. & G. & M. Falshaw, Bury at £390 and £375 respectively. Pauline Anderton, of Bam- ber Bridge won first prize in the


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Peter Lambert, of Bedale


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to a two-week old Charolais- cross from A. Hargreaves Ltd, of Sawley, which went on to sell for £305 to M. Dewhurst. The Other Bred heifer class


was won by a Limousin-cross from D. Whitworth, of Halifax; seond was a Simmental-cross from David Shuttleworth and third a Limousin-cross from F. & M. Parkinson, of Chaigley, which later sold for £200, £200 and £245 respectively. Overall the 188 calves forward


were just a little easier than the last couple of weeks: Blue Bulls avg. £308, Heifers £245; Limou­ sin Bulls avg. £254, Heifers £193; Simmental Bulls avg. £326, Heif­ ers £222; Charolais Bulls avg. £267, Heifers £204; Angus Bulls avg. £210, Heifers £180; Black and White Bulls avg. £57. Auctioneers were Richard Turner and Son.


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