Moorshard to 2450gns at SAC Mid-Summer Collective

Greenslade Taylor Hunts annual Mid-Summer Collective Sale was this year held as part of the Sedgemoor Auction Centre weekly dairy market and followed 100 commercial milking cows and heifers through the ring. The day’s top price of 2450gns for a calved heifer from one of the West Country’s leading herds being “Moorshard Double Agent Fawn” a freshly calved heifer that had the PI Ex95 “Quietcove Valiant Fawn” dam in her pedigree. At 2200gns was Dimond Farming Ltd’s calved heifer “Dorset Twister Fable 2nd” from three generations of VG and an exceptionally milky family, the “Belle Fable 2nd” from Dorset sold for 2050gns. LWR & KA Hill continued to disperse their milking herd as they calve with the calved heifer “Sampfordel Lucius Tina” selling at 2080gns.

Five of the seven bulls forward sold to a top of 1420gns for John Young Farms Ltd “Lanover Ample” by “Million” he was off the renowned “Ashlyn” family.

Yearling heifers from Maundrils Farm Partnership’s organic herd sold to 900gns for daughters of “O-Man End-Story” from their “Wallen” and “Molly” families.

A well grown commercial yearling heifer from MP & PM Perrett by “Welcome Altaporter” sold for 810gns. Commercial heifer calves from the same Vendor sold to 510gns.

Cross bred yearling heifers averaged £655.66 and cross bred heifer calves sold to £273.00

A very busy day for the dairy section with purchasers from across the West and Wales produced the following averages: