Auctioneers: Greenslade Taylor Hunt

Averages: freshly calved cows £1352.00; freshly calved heifers £1365.00; in-calf heifers £1235.00; served heifers £1007.00; bulling heifers £ 727.00; yearling and younger heifers £ 457.00; RHPT Coffin £1098.00

 

A firm trade was seen throughout the Mid-Summer Collective Dairy Sale for 233 head at Sedgemoor Auction Centre, M5 J24. 44 successful purchasers from Cornwall, Cheshire and Carmarthen were attracted by the easily accessible venue just off the motorway.

 

Freshly calved cows and heifers met a good trade with the majority selling between 1,300-1,550gns and produced a top price of 1,580gns for Lamb Topshot Graceful the calved heifer from R T Cox. Rob Wilcox’s heifer Sandpark Twist Jasmine 3 sold for 1,550gns with others to 1,500gns from Church Farm and F E Luff.

 

Cows topped at 1,480gns for H J Baldwin’s second calver giving 37kg from his excellent consignment of cows and heifers. Other cows to 1,450gns for ‘Walkabout Dimagio Broom’ and 1,400gns twice.

 

A feature of the sale was the dispersal from R H P T Coffin’s of Holstein Friesians, which sold to a top of 1,450gns for a second lactation cow that calved last September. A heifer due in October sold to 1,400gns, others 1,340gns and 1,320gns twice reflecting the increase demand for September calving cows and heifers.

 

A good show of young stock saw one of the best in-calf heifer trades of the year so far with 1,400gns achieved for two Destry daughters bred from the Chedhunt herd and sold by F E Luff. The same vendor sold other heifers to 1,380gns twice. Off lying heifers were in demand to 1,300gns for a Cogent Twist daughter Roundhillsfarm Veronica from W Green and Sons. Bulling heifers sold to 800gns twice for Lewis Farms Ltd who also had the top priced yearlings at 620gns twice, both by Bolton. Auctioneer Derek Biss commented: ‘The younger they got the dearer they got,’ with the 50 yearlings forward averaging over £450.