A GOOD entry of quality Holstein cattle saw no fewer than 14 animals sell at or above the £2000 bracket with a lead disclosed price of 2300gns at the Border and Lakeland Holstein Club sale at Carlisle. 

The sale, which included a consignment of young-stock from Gavin and Jonny Lochhead’s Kedar Brown Swiss herd from Dumfries, saw the fresh Holstein heifer, Stowbeck Pure Jeanie from Skirwith Hall Farms, Penrith, make 2300gns. A daughter of STE Oldie Pure, bred from an Ex-classified dam that produced more than 15,000kg in her last, she sold to W Brewster, Wester Borland Farm, Stirling. 

Just behind at 2200gns was the reserve champion, Warnelview Fever Silverwings 3 from the Wilson family, Wood Farm, Carlisle. This heifer is by Crackholm Fever and traces back to Burwen Midnight Silverwings Ex92 which boasts a 60t lifetime yield. She was knocked down to J and J Barr, Easter Bucklyvie, Cowdenbeath, Fife. 

Quality consignments of in-calf heifers from SG Mair’s Deveronside herd from Turriff and GI Shand and Son’s Chapelherd unit from Clochan, Buckie, both Aberdeenshire, averaged £1517. Top price here was 1700gns paid on two occasions for Deveronside heifers with the first purchased by Clark Farming, Preston, and the second selling to T and M Irving, Bectonhall. 

Lead disclosed price among the Brown Swiss was 1680gns paid by M Ridsdale and Son, Yew Tree Farm, Penrith, for Kedar Tanbark Hawaii, an in-calf heifer by Pit-Crew Wonder Tanbark and bred from a VG Jongleur dam. She changed hands served to Kedar Hotstuff.

The organic Brown Swiss herd which is currently averaging 7625kg with 4.03%BF and 3.67%P, also received 1650gns for the similarly-aged Kedar Present Amber, a Nauhaus BS Zeus Present daughter that sold to Richard Harrington, Birds Hill Farm, Dalston. She also sold served to Hotstuff.