Leading the way at a farm sale for P Cochran, Knowes Farm, Dunbar, through Border Livestock Exchange and by electronic-tender, was a John Deere 7530 premium tractor which sold for £38,250.

The sale had 278 lots on offer, with prices of all lots well above all expectations with some actually above the original new price.

LEADING prices

From Knowes farm – £38,250 JD 7530 premium tractor; £36,500 JD 7530 premium tractor; £27,500 JD 6620 tractor; £24,130 Knight 4000-litre trailed sprayer; £15,300 Kuhn Venta LC3000 2012 seed drill with Kuhn HR3004D power harrow; £13,000 Kverneland ED 85 five-furrow reversible plough; £12,750 JD 6300 tractor; £9300 186 irrigation pipes 30′ x 4”; £8050 Marston Ace 12t grain trailer; £7000 JPM 14T dump trailer.

Inputs – £13,000 NH Combine TX 34; £10,000 Bateman sprayer.