SKIPTON Auction Mart has hit the ground running at the start of 2021 and our farming pages return with reports and pictures on this week’s opening New Year rearing calf show and sale, and first of the monthly prime shows. Despite the latest lockdown, no let up was planned for the rest of the week, with yesterday (Wednesday) featuring the annual Great New Year sale of 850 head of feeding and breeding cattle. Planned for today (Thursday) is the first pedigree fixture of the year, the 28th annual open winter show and sale of 36 Texel females for members of Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders, comprising 32 shearling ewes and four ewe lambs.
CCM Auctions’ final fortnightly sale of dairy cattle of the year achieved total clearance for a solid entry of 41 black and white cows and heifers sold through the ring on Monday, December 14. Trade topped at £2,020 for Shawdale Incredibull Pledge 68, a three-week calved heifer from David, Margaret and Jennie Booth, of the Master Breeder pedigree Shawdale herd in Lothersdale. Already giving 35kg per day and a granddaughter of the show-winning EX94-4E Shawdale Damion Pledge 2 4 who gave more than 90 tonnes of milk lifetime, she sold to the Sowray Brothers in Bishop Thornton, Harrogate, regular vendors of calves at Skipton and past multiple show champions with their dairy-bred youngsters.
CCM Auctions’ final fortnightly sale of dairy cattle of the year achieved total clearance for a solid entry of 41 black and white cows and heifers sold through the ring. (Mon, Dec 14) Trade topped at £2,020 for Shawdale Incredibull Pledge 68, a three-week calved heifer from David, Margaret and Jennie Booth, of the Master Breeder pedigree Shawdale herd in Lothersdale. Already giving 35kg per day and a granddaughter of the show-winning EX94-4E Shawdale Damion Pledge 2 4 who gave over 90 tonnes of milk lifetime, she sold to the Sowray Brothers in Bishop Thornton, Harrogate, regular vendors of calves at Skipton and past multiple show champions with their dairy-bred youngsters.