AN outstanding show of heifers and calves sold extremely well at Aberdeen and Northern Marts' sale of 235 head of adult breeding cattle on Tuesday, where a Limousin cross heifer with bull calf at foot from Craig Malone, Pitcairn, Fife, stood champion and topped the trade at £3200.

Selling to the judge Duncan Keir and son Brodie from Newton of Carnaveron, Alford, they also paid £2900 for the reserve champion animal, a Simmental sired heifer with a Limousin cross bull calf at foot from the Smith family at Towiemore, Drummuir, Keith. Top price in the heifer and bull calf outfit however, was £2950 for a Simmental cross from Auchtygall.

Meanwhile, cows with a bull calf sold to £2400 for a British Blue cross from East Mains of Carseburn, while the same home topped the cows with a heifer calf at £2150. In-calf heifers sold to £1750 for a Simmental from Backhill of Seggat, Auchterless, while in-calf cows reached £1600 for a Limousin cross from Newton of Crathie.

LEADINGawards:

Heifers with calves – Sim – EM Smith and Sons, Towiemore, Keith £2900. Lim – C Malone, Pitcairn, Cardenden £3200. BRB – EM Smith and Sons, Towiemore, Keith £2800.

Top average of three Sim-sired heifers with calves – EM Smith and Sons, Towiemore, Keith with £2750 (x2) with male calves and £2650 with male calf averaging £2716.66

LEADINGprices:

Heifer with bull calf – Sim X – Auchtygall £2950. Sim – Towiemore £2900. Lim X – Pitcairn, Cardenden £2550. BSH X – Auchtygall, Peterhead £2350. Sal X – Towiemore £2250. HF X – East Mains of Carseburn £2150. BRB X – East Mains of Carseburn, Forfar £2100. Char X – Ardhuncart, Kildrummy £1700.

Heifer with heifer calf – Lim X – Upper Sauchen, Ordhead £2500. Sim – Towiemore £2750. Sim X – Towiemore, Lost Farm, Strathdon £2450. Sal X – Towiemore £2200. BRB X – East Mains of Carseburn £2150. BSH X – 25 Pringle Avenue, Tarves £2000. Cow with bull calf – BRB X – East Mains of Carseburn £2400. Lim X – East Mains of Carseburn £2100. Char X – Cairnacreoch, New Aberdour £1020. Cow and heifer calf – Lim X – East Mains of Carseburn £2150. Sim X – Cairnacreoch £1080. In-calf heifers – Sim – Backhill of Seggat, Auchterless £1750. Sim X – Backhill of Seggat £1700. BSH – Newton of Crathie, Crathes £1520. Lim X – Newton of Crathie £,480. BRB X – Newton of Crathie £1380. In-calf cow – Lim X – Newton of Crathie £1600. BRB X – Newton of Crathie £1400. A-A X – Newton of Crathie £1280. Lim X – Newton of Crathie £1280.

Bull – Lim – East Cranloch £1250.