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QUALITY BREEDING TOPS IN FEBRUARY DAIRY DAY
The February Borderway Monthly Dairy Day had 90 dairy cattle on offer comprising freshly calved cows and heifers and in-calf heifers. Trade topped at £1450 to average £942 for the milking portion. Trade on the month was slightly down, reflecting on a number of the recent milk price drops announced in the press, despite this, demand for freshly calved cows remains strong. Top price went to S G Mair and Sons, Kinnermit, Aberdeenshire, for a milky heifer giving 38kgs. She was sired by O-Man End Story and bred from a Shottle dam. Averages: 17 Holstein cows in milk £920, two British Friesian cows £950, 31 Holstein heifers £997.36, 21 Holstein in-calf heifers £832, two Holstein bulling heifers £465.
CRAVEN DAIRY
AUCTION Peter Baul’s Ravensgate pedigree Holstein herd led trade the Craven Dairy Auction on Monday 8th February. Mr Baul’s first prize heifer, Ravensgate Aldean Sparkle 223 is by the Cogent young bull Aldean and out of Ravensgate Principal Sparkle. Sold 32 days-calved and giving 32 litres, the champion sold for top call of £1660 to Andrew Parker, Emley, Huddersfield.
Averages: Heifers in milk £1244. (CCM Auctions)
CHAMPION MAKES £1800 AT
LANCASTER On 15th
February the dairy sale at Lancaster saw 26 cows and heifers forward to peak at £1800 for the pre-sale champion Stardale
Alexander Stella 3 from J Burrow and Son. Giving 30 litres a day and backed by 10 generations of VG and EX dams, she was purchased by Messers Lawson, Cockerham.
Gaston Wallace from the Printshop herd. Her dam is Relough Jeeves Girl EX92-3E, she now joins the Bangor-based Ballycrochan herd.
WRIGHT MARSHALL’S MID
MONTH SALE The famous Wright Marshall Mid Month Sale of pedigree and commercial dairy cattle including sections for the Western Holstein Club’s Focus Milk cattle, took place on Tuesday, 9th February in front of a really big crowd of buyers from Lancashire all the way through to West Wales with a big contingent of Welsh buyers present. Leading trade at £2800 was Yatehouse Hold Sid Chartreuse from Richard Atkin, a Sid daughter backed by eight generations of VG or EX from the same family as Shottle. She sold giving 32kg daily to John Williamson, Austerson. (Wright Marshall)
2100GNS TOP AT MOIRA
Pedigree Holstein females peaked at 2100gns at the Northern Ireland Club’s February show and sale, held at Moira. The sale achieved a 79% clearance with 15 lots changing hands to average £1310. Sale leader was Relough Planet Girl, a November 2013 born Ensenada Taboo Planet daughter bred by Ronald McLean and Sons, Donaghmore. She was tapped out as reserve champion in the pre-sale show by judge
LET IT SNOW IS FEBRUARY CHART
TOPPER On 17th
February the Border and
Lakeland pedigree sale day at Borderway, Carlisle, saw a top price of 1800gns, although values took a downturn of 23% on the month. There is no question that these heifers are currently the best value in Europe and UK buyers should make Borderway their number one choice.
Sale leader at 1800gns was Crossfell Let It Snow Wren from Crossfell Holsteins, Kirby Thore. This was the first Velthuis Let It Snow daughter to sell in milk at the Border and Lakeland sale, she displayed tons of style with a close to perfect udder. She now joins the Davidson’s Errolston herd, Scotland’s premier herd at Gretna.
Averages: two cows in milk £1296.75, 58 heifers in milk £1053.25, 14 Cumcatch cows £935.25, 11 Cumcatch in-calf heifers £772.23. (Harrison and Hetherington)
£1980 TOP AT
GISBURN Leading trade at Gisburn Auction on 18th February was the pre-sale champion Feizor Explode G Fanta from the Booth family. Backed by two generations of VG cows, her
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