Growing demand for dairy cattle ensured a 100% clearance at the July Month-End sale at Beeston Castle Auction.

Of the 162 milking cattle entered for sale, 152 were forward with all finding new homes with an overall average of £1240 per head.
The sale which incorporated pedigree Holsteins from the Western Holstein Club, also included a major unselected consignment of cows all calved from early May onwards from JR and JR Davenport and Sons of Broomhall, Nantwich, who are changing the calving profile of their herd to autumn block calving. 
They sold to £1750 for a second calved daughter of Jeeves, which had calved eight weeks and was giving 40kg. She sold to ED Morris of Oswestry with eight others from the same home selling between the £1500 to £1600 mark. 
Pedigree cows peaked at £1600 twice for second calvers from the Uphall herd of JD Alston Estates of Diss, Norfolk, for daughters Zelgadis and Wyman selling to JJ and AS Nicholas, Tarporley and to PR and EA Stone of Stone, Staffordshire respectively.
The heifer trade was not quite as sharp as it was a two weeks previously, but a higher proportion of the entry had been calved for longer and as far back as April. Lead disclosed price in this section was £1790 paid for a Denmire Royster daughter from WW and D Boow of Millom, Cumbria, purchased by Wilmot Blockley of Tarvin.