JULIANHOLME TOP TRADE FOR SECOND
CONSECUTIVE MONTH
The November
Borderway Monthly Dairy Day sale was a massive event with 41 vendors offering 343
head of dairy cattle with most breeds represented. Buyers were recorded from 19 counties who
witnessed a brisk trade top at £2300 to average £1639 for 131 freshly calved
cows and heifers with 13 animals selling for or above £2000.
For the second
consecutive month the Denwood family from Julian Holme, Seascale topped the
trade, this time with a very classy heifer selling for £2300. She was sired by Kellercrest Lancome and bred
from a high producing Lavanguard dam. In
total 12 cows and heifers were sold from this home to average £1825.
There was a
very strong trade for cows giving large volumes of milk with Messrs Cottam from
Holmrook topping the cow trade at £2100 for a super uddered cow giving
42kg. She was sired by Jeeves and bred from
a dam with over 13000kgs. The seven high
producing cows from this home averaged £1742.
D Kennedy &
Son from Chapelcroft,Lockmaben sold two heifers both with udders that flirted
with perfection selling for £2120 and £2100 and sired by Shanael Elias &
Ardnasalem Bookem Pride respectively.
The Workman
family from Beeches Farm, Carlisle sold three very milky Montbeliarde heifers
all giving over 30kg topping at £1800 for a daughter of Hypnos.
R & A Slack,
Cockley Bank, Brampton held the third sale to disperse their highly productive
herd of Holsteins selling 21 freshly calved cows to average £1386 and topped at
£1850 for a second calve cow sired by Emmark Mammoth.
Brothers Steven
& Stuart Roan owners of the Colvend and Kippford pedigree Holstein herds
near Dalbeattie sold 25 quality in-calf heifers mostly due to calve in
Decemeber. Topping this attractive
consignment was a daughter of Pen-Col Merrick at £1700 and bred from a dam with
over 10000kgs with both the grand dam and third dam classified VG. This well bred group averaged £1500.
The Foster
family from Langside Farm, Galston sold 40 in-calf heifers from their highly
efficient Holstein Friesian herd. The
heifers were mostly due in March and April with some due in June. These heifers sold for less than excepted
topping at £900 for a heifer due in February.
THE BLAKELEY HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN DISPERSAL
SALE
One of the main attractions at the November
Borderway Monthly Dairy Day sale was the dispersal sale of the Blakeley
Holstein Friesian herd held on behalf of Joe and Robert Wilson who have farm
close to the town of Staindrop in Co. Durham.
This was a
super herd of square long lasting cows that milked exceptionally well on a
mainly grass diet. The herd average was
7000kgs with impressive components of 4.59% butterfat and 3.56% protein.
Topping the
trade at £2000 was a recently calved cow in her second lactation sired by
Bradish Tournament giving 38kgs. The
milking heifers sold well topping at £1900 again for a daughter of Bradish
Tournament giving 27kgs. With just over
a third of the herd selling for £1500 or more the overall average for the
Blakeley milking herd was £1245.
The next dairy
sale at Borderway takes place on Wednesday 22nd November and features 220
pedigree Holsteins in the Border & Lakeland Holstein club sale. This sale includes the first sale to disperse
the Deveronside Pedigree herd (153 selling) owned by the Mair family from
Kinnermit Farm, Turriff, Aberdeenshire. The
catalogue for this sale can be viewed on line at www.harrisonandhetherington.co.uk or can be ordered from the Pedigree
Office 01228 406230
Averages
20 Holstein Cows in milk £1687.50
111 Holstein Heifers in
milk £1625.35
21 Cows in milk
Cockleybank Dispersal £1386.66
66 Cows & heifers
Blakeley Farm Dispersal £1245.45
8 British Friesian Cows in
milk £1552.50
9 ¾ quarter & faulted
cows in milk £978.88
25 In-Calf heifers Colvend
& Kippford £1500.40
9 In-Calf heifers due
March £1280.33
40 In-calf & recently
served heifers Langside £731.30
31 Bulling heifers
Blakeley Farm Dispersal £707.96
