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Saturday 4 February 2012
Trade peaked at 4000gns at the British Limousin Cattle Society’s sale of haltered and unhaltered females at Ballymena Mart last weekend.
A first choice heifer calf from the Dennison’s famous Denmire Marie family from Cumbria, proved the star attraction at the 25th Anniversary Black and White Sale at Carlisle, last weekend, securing the lead price of 15,000gns.
Charolais sold to a top of 11,000gns at the breed society’s official autumn sale in Carlisle, smashing centre breed autumn records.
A bumper catalogue containing some of the world’s most popular Holstein cow families, was equally matched by the quality of the stock on offer at the Autumn Showcase sale at the Bristol Sales Centre, last week, where the top priced females were animals boasting high genomic test figures.
Charolais met a strong demand, selling to 7600gns for a 15-month-old bull, at the Northern Ireland Charolais Club’s official autumn show and sale at Dungannon last week.
TWO SCOTTISH beef farmers made their presence felt at the Lincoln Red breed society’s autumn show and sale at Newark, last weekend, as vendors and buyers of top priced lots.
It was ladies’ day at a breed society sale of Belted Galloways at Castle Douglas, last week, when two of the breed’s best known breeders secured the top prices and the lead awards with home-bred stock.
YOU WON’T find it anywhere else.
BULLS MIGHT have led the day in the Shorthorn rings, but it was females that stole the show, with a new record average for Perth.
WHILE THE top end trading did not match the record heights being achieved further down the food chain for store and finished cattle, history records that Aberdeen-Angus breeders managed to add a creditable £475 to their average this year, to level at £4650 for 42 sold.
LEADING BOTH show and sale for the Limousin breed on Monday night, was Alan Jenkinson, from Clifton Moor, Clifton, Penrith.
THERE WAS a fairytale ending to the annual autumn bulls sales on Wednesday when the Charolais breed saw its record smashed with a 70,000gns cracker, recording a record average in the process.
A clearance of 70%, a top of 22,000gns and a level of £4841 gave Simmental breeders a cracking second day of the Perth Bull Sales on Tuesday.
BUYERS PROVED selective throughout the sale of Limousin bulls at Carlisle last weekend, but the very best of the entries met a flying trade, with 13 bulls breaking the five-figure barrier, selling to a top of 32,000gns.
STEADY AS you go was the trade at Oban Highland cattle sale this week, with home demand, rather than export, driving the trade.
With averages up on the year and a top price of £3300, Caledonian Mart’s auctioneer, John Kyle, was delighted with the ‘Premier’ show and sale of suckled calved at Stirling, recently.
Paul Cairns, of Plumtree Limousins, in Nottinhamshire, has sold his March 2010-born Limousin bull, Plumtree Fantastic, to Ian Handley’s Gunnerfleet herd, in a private deal worth £40,000.
BUYERS FROM England, Wales and Northern Ireland were out in force at the Spectacular show and sale of store cattle at Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, buying a third of the cattle and 14 at more than £2000.
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