TRADE hit a top of 2600gns at the recent Border and Lakeland Holstein Club show and sale at Harrison and Hetherington’s Borderway Mart, last week, where a strong entry of quality animals was on offer. 
Setting that price was the reserve champion from the pre-sale show in the shape of Malcolm and Jane Hutchinson’s Bowberhill Uno Blossom 3, a 25-month-old heifer from the duo’s base at Redgate Farm, Kirby Stephen. 
Sired by Amighetti Numero Uno and from a successful cow cow family back by 10 generations of Excellent and VG-classified cows that have regularly yielded more than 10,000kg in a single lactation, she calved down at the end of November and sold to H Huddlestone and Son, Snab Green, Carnforth, giving 34kg a day.
Next in the trade stakes at 2050gns when sold north of the Border to Allan McCamley, Knockshiffnock, Ochiltree, was Espland Saloon Milly from Alan Cannon’s Espland herd near Brampton. 
Born in August, 2014, out of a GP83 dam that gave 12,278kg during her second, Saloon Milly sold having calved at the start of November. 
Mr Cannon sold another heifer, Espland Lavanguard Melody 2, to T and MD Beaty, Langhorn, Egremont. This one made 1920gns and calved a month before the sale. 
RH Robinson, of Burtholme, Brampton, bought a trio of heifers from Skirwith Hall Farms, from near Penrith, with two of these at 2000gns apiece. 
Placed third in her class and the first of the 2000gns sales was Stowbeck Saloon Renee which is bred from three generations of dam in the top two classifications and calved her first three weeks prior to sale. 
Matching that price was Stowbeck Lynx Mavis, which calved her first last month and sold giving 38kg. 
And making it a trio to head to Burtholme from Skirwith was Stowbeck Bumblebee Jeanie which calved mid-November and realised 1980gns. 
Another matched a previous call of 1920gns when M and JA Johnston’s Petterilview Real Deal Jane from Petteril Side, Southwaite, Carlisle, sold to J and B Donald and Son, Lamonby Hall, Penrith. 
averages: Three cows in milk, £1428.00; 47 heifers in milk, £1677.44