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Clltheroe Advertiser &TImes,Thursday, March 22,2012 valleyfarming A weekly look at the local countryside and the issues T - lS i - i Towler’s Texels triumphant


CHIPPING’S David Stamper snapped up the first prize pair at Gisbum . Auction Mart’s Prime Hoggs Pair Show.'^ -


Grimsargh, picked up the-. fourth prize rosette with - their 36kgs Texel hoggs, which sold for £93 to pre- . sale show judge Anthony . Swales. Regular vendor' John Eddleston, of Great Harwood, sold his fifth . prize winners, weighing 39kgs, at £87.50. Auction­ eers were Richard Turner and Son.


Robert Lambert, of Wig- glesworth, with his Texels weighing 36kgs and sell­ ing for £102. Third prize winners were again from Procters Farms Ltd - an-, other pair of Texel hoggs which weighed 40kgs and sold for £109. Heline and Procter, of


hoggs from Procters Farms Ltd; Slaidburn, - weighed 43kgs and sold for £120. Next in the ribbons was'


The .winning Texel:


Young Farmer | tops


was happy to pay “top whack” for such quality ani­ mals.


HIGH ON THE HOGG: Matt.Bolton (left) of pre­ sale show sponsor Barnes and Bolton Trailer Servicing, and Robin Towler, of Procters Farms, with the first prize Texel hoggs.


Spring Stirk spectacular


Jones, of Hebden Bridge, at £150, and Suffolk-cross hoggs from Ross Greenwood, of Carleton, at £144.' Store Hoggs sold to £90 for Texels, £77 for Grit­ stones and £60 for Swaledales. The pre-sale show was sponsored by Dugdales Nutrition and Laycocks Agricultural ehemists.'"


i Auctioneers were Richard Turner and Son. Store cattle were in high demand


AN outstanding show of cattle was on offer at Clithe­ roe Auction Mart’s sale of store cattle. Trade was strong throughout and many more could


have been sold, with purchasers coming from far and wide. A Charolais steer from D. Hudson, of Duxbury, topped at £1,095, closely followed by a British Blue


heifer at £1,085 from R. Spence, of Clitheroe. A run of young Blonde D’Aquitaine bulls from J. Mitcbell, ofTodmorden, sold for £850.


; Auctioneer Joe Worthington commented: “We


had a good show of cattle and we could have sold a lot more, overall trade was veiy good.”


Jaunty Armer trading at Gisburn ] 1 .; Ml !•


GOOD SHOW: Neil Roberts, Ian Illingworth and Russell Howarth, of Dale- head Vets, with John Mellin and his champion Charolais steer.


A SPRING Stirk Spectacular Show and sale drew a good crowd at Gisburn Auc­ tion Mart.


, co-judged by Bob Wearmouth and Den­ nis Thwaites, of Kirkby Stephen. The best male under 12 months and


The show was sponsored by Settle- based Dalehead Veterinary Group and


overall champion came from Cropper and Mellin, of Long Preston - an 11- month-old Charolais-cross steer which sold for £1,070.


class were taken by David Capstick, of Hellifield, with blue-cross heifers at £1,000 and the day’s top price of £1,100.


second prize steer at £930. Third prize in this class, at £1,050 was a Blonde-cross- from E. R. Hollingworth & Son, of Mid­ dleton, Manchester. First and second prize in the female


Cropper and Mellin also presented the • six7 Fiddler, 'fc


known local breeders readily found new homes, many achieving prices far exceed­ ing the vendor’s expectations. There was also much interest shown for the run of 36 Hereford and Angus-cross dairy bred month-old Stirks from the late John


■ (average £390). Auctioneers were IWch- ard Turner and Son.


■ Steers sold to £560 and heifers to £550. Black and whites sold to a top of £625


.


Carlisle, Driffield to Grange-over-Sands packed into the main ring for Limou- sins from Bernard and Margaret Slater, of Chipping, and R. & S. A. Wilson, of Dent. They found pastures new in the £770 to £840 price bracket. . Suckler-bred young stores from well-


Mark Wilson, of Selside, took third prize with a Charolais-cross at £695. ' Buyers from as far afield as Norfolk to


i WINNER of the newly-calved heifer class, an unregistered Holstein from David Armer, of Catforth, took the monthly Dugdale Nutrition-sponsored


brey Greenhalgh, of Elswick, near Pres­ ton, and the awards were presented James Oddie of Clitheroe-based animal feeds merchant Dugdale Nutrition.


dairy championship at Gisbum Auction Mart. The competition was judged by Au­


. The winning heifer went on to sell at £2,250 to Chris Harrison, of Elslack.


pion heifer was giving 35kg daily prior to the sale. Newly-calved heifers sold to £2,350


(for a lot from S. and P. J. Scrivin sell-


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herd of about 50 head and have made a speciality.pf selling iii-^calf heifers at Gisburn, having taken the same award on a number of occasions. Their cham­


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and levelled WINNING LINE-UP: From the left James Oddie, of Dugdale Nu- s E h S .V J S


judge Aubrey Greenhalgh. Photo: Neil Ryder. Armefand pre-


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Lampkin, of Silsden, sold Charollais-cross shear­ lings to a high of £290. Generally, correct ewes of all breeds with twins averaged above the £200 mark, while those with singles found new homes at about £20 a family less. Broken mouthed with twins topped.at £250 and generally sold in the £180 mark and singles about £150. Top of the lamb section were Mule ewes from M.


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Rathmell Young Farmer Jonathan Frankland for his reserve champions, a pair of registered Texel ewes with a single ram and gimmer lamb apiece. ■ Texel enthusiast Shaun Roberts, of Clitheroe,


the champion prize - 40 bags of sheep feed from Clitheroe-based Dugdale Nutrition for his Suffolk- cross-Texel four-crop ewes with Beltex iambs at foot. They sold for £265 to John Mellin, of Long Preston. . Top price of the day, at £350 a family, went to


Bolton, had the task of picking the prize winners from the 426 forward. He awarded Anthony Thompson, of Foulridge,


GISBURN Auction Mart’s spring show of ewes and lambs at foot was keenly contested. Pre-sale show judge Richard Fitton, of Kearsley,


TOP WHACK: Jonathan Frankland (left) with his reserve champion ewes and lambs which sold for £350 a family, alongside pre-sale show Judge Rich­ ard Rtton.


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