A bought in heifer from East Kilbride-based breeders, David and Jim Gray, Drumtall, sold for the top price of £3000 at the monthly Borderway Dairy Day sale at Carlisle.

Willsbro Deejay Ashlyn, a daughter of Peak Altadeejay, is bred from Willsbro Dynamo Ashlyn 168 which goes back to Mr Rubicon Dynamo. She sold to the Baillie family, Dalserf, Larkhall.

The Wilson family of Evening Hill Farm, Thursby, Carlisle, received £2700 for Evening Chief Beatexus, Stantons Chief-sired heifer out of Evening Lineman Beatexus Ex93. She found a new home with Willes Farms, Woolsery, Devon.

Alan Reid of Dockenflat, Lockerbie sold 38 freshly calved, late lactation cows and dry cows to average almost £2100. Top price here was £2650 for a daughter of Winston Oracle, giving 37kg per day. She is out of Seagull-Bay Slvr Kimball, and sold to Messrs Green, Lach Dennis, Northwich.

The same buyers went to £2600 for a Holstein giving 35.8kg and served to Denovo August. Sired by Denovo Villanova, she is out of Stantons Close Up.

Top price for JB and SM Mounsey, Ashfield, Laversdale, Carlisle, was £2650, paid for Ashberry Delta Lambda Lynne 2. This second calver by Farnear Delta-Lambda sold giving 40kg to Messrs Holliday, Blackdyke, Wigton.

Willes Farms, Devon, purchased another two lots at £2600 and £2500. Dearest of the two was Roughton Clare Red 58, from RJ Holden, Syke house, Broughton-in-Furness. She is a result of a mating between the sire, Westcoast Redcarpet, and the dam, Broughton Dot 28 Ex90.

Selling at £2500 was Dalserf Morris Angel 3 from the Baillie family, Dalserf. She is a daughter of Peak Altamorris and out of Dalserf Kingpin Angel VG87.

Matching that price was Errolston Madiba Zwartina 2 from Brian, Val and Craig Davidson, Errolston, Gretna, which sold to Messrs Miller, Heads Book, Brampton. Sired by Farmers Wish Wag Madiba, she is out of Errolston Supersire Zwartina Ex91.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

Averages: In milk – 106 Holstein heifers, £2178.48; 11 Holstein cows, £2054.54; seven British Friesian cows/heifers, £1497.14; five Jersey heifers, £1800.00; four Brown Swiss, £1625.00; four Montbeliardes, £1292.80; seven faulted cows ¾, £945.71.

Fleckvieh dispersal – 94 cows and heifers in milk or dry, £1237.65.

Late lactation/dry cows – 15 Holstein due June/July, £1963.33; 30 Irish Friesian cross bred dry cows, £942.33.