(Six top £1,900 at Gisburn pedigree sale)

 

An increased entry of newly calved heifers and cows in Gisburn Auction Mart’s pedigree and non-pedigree dairy sale last Thursday saw pedigrees peak at £1,960 twice and another four over £1,900.

 

The sale champion was a two weeks calved daughter of Bakombre, from J. and A.H. Rogerson’s Avenham herd at Singleton, Poulton-le-Fylde. Out of an 8,712kg heifer note dam, the champion is a grand-daughter of a 17,509kg Avenham cow. It sold at £1,950 to R.R. and J. Wade, Sabden.

 

The reserve champion, an O-Man End Story daughter from J.D. Taylor and Son’s Smellows herd at Broughton, Skipton, made £1,940 to A.A. and E. Critchley and Son, Hutton Preston who also paid the day’s joint top price of £1,960 for a Ladys- Manor Savior heifer from the Feizor based herd of W. A. and A. Booth.

 

At the same money, was another Smellows heifer – this one by Coyne-Farms Dorcy – and selling to G.T. and B.F. Blezard, Ribchester who also took a Feizor heifer at £1,940.

 

Also at £1,940 was a Newcroft heifer from W. and S. Airey, Whittington, Carnforth, selling to J. Walton, Wrea Green, Preston.

 

Jennings Farmers, Ripon, topped the pedigree cow trade at £1,740 with a fresh second calver by Gillette Stanleycup, which was bought by F.A. and T.C. R. Wrathall, Gisburn.

 

On the same day, the catalogue of strong, pedigree in-calf heifers from local breeders A. Calvert and Son, drew a top price of £1,420 for a January 2015 born Stanleycup daughter, due next month to Holmland Bentley.

 

AVERAGES

Pedigree newly calved heifers £1,667, cows £1,407. Non-pedigree newly calved

heifers £1,468. Pedigree in-calf heifers £1,280, non-pedigree £1,240; bulling heifers

£798.

 

Auctioneers: Richard Turner and Son.