Red and White to 2900gns at SAC

Auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt report a selective trade at the Annual May Collective Sale at Sedgemoor Auction Centre as a result of a reduced confidence in the milk price and more wet weather. However quality was still in demand with the sale topping at 2900gns for the “Designer Holsteins” superb red and white heifer “Penrikka Artie Culture Red” out of a VG89 second calver. She travelled to Wales with the days’ top priced cow “Noremead Monarch Warmer 3rd” from DJ & ZE Parrett’s herd dispersal who sold for 2300gns. Other cows from their flying herd sold to 1820gns for “Moorshard Outbound Dazzle 78th” and 1800gns for the commercial calved heifer out of a “Noremead” dam. Other calved heifers from the collective sale sold to 1800gns for PJ Andrews “Beneknowle Seaver Jay 91st”.

LWR & KA Hill continued to disperse their herd as they calve to top at 1680gns for the calved heifer “Sampfordel Azure Sunbeam” Ray Darby is doing the same and sold Friesian second calvers to 1560gns.

A & P Bradford, having sold their dairy herd, dispersed their remaining incalf heifers. They were incalf to the Hereford and due July to August selling to 1520gns x3 for daughters of “Moorshard Omen”.

Bulling heifers from Spicer Partners “Gomershay” herd sold to 1060gns for “Gomershay Fever Lucy 3rd” by “Crackholm Fever ET” out of a VG88 dam.

Heifer calves from the Parrett’s dispersal topped at 780gns for a daughter of “Marcroft Toystory Tripoli” by “Dinnaton Altadetroit”.

The Holstein bull from DJ & VM Norman sold to 1280gns for “Ciderhouse Statesman” by the “Shottle”.

30 purchasers from across the West Country and Wales produced the following averages:

Collective Sale

Dispersal Sales

DJ & ZE Parrett

LWR & KA Hill

Ray Darby