61 Bulls average £11,070, up by £3636 on the year Simmental leads all-breed averages and the solo five figure average Average is a new all-centre Simmental breed record 28 bulls (46%) make 10,000gns or more 86% clearance of bulls Ten bulls sell to the Scottish islands...
For Robert Manson, the Simmental breed offers everything a commercial producer could ask for—maternal strength, good temperament, efficient growth, and the kind of adaptability required on the farm’s varied land. Brodieshill Farm is located near Forres, one of the...
Keith Nelson runs a mixed farm in Rosslea, County Fermanagh alongside his family, where they milk 120 pedigree Fleckvieh and Holstein cows in a robotic system, run a small suckler beef herd and a bed and breakfast pig system. For Keith, focusing on genetics is crucial...
It was a packed ringside of keen bidders in show of a tremendous trend for Simmental bulls at the Annual Spring Sale at the Carlisle Sale held at Harrison & Hetherington Auctioneers.
Topping the trade at 4,200gns was Blackpool Alpha by Lamhoj Supery (P), bred by J D Loftus of the Blackpool Herd in Lancashire.
Male Champion & Supreme Champion Urrvalley Alfie 09 by Dirnanean Salvador which was bred by Peter Brown, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, sold for 4,100gns, also from the same stable Urrvalley Albert a Keeldrum Schubert son sold for 4,100gns
Reserve Male Champion & Supreme Male Champion, Lyvennet Archer 09 sold for 2,100gns
14 bulls sold at a sale average of £3195.00 a clearance rate of 88%
Female Champion Blakewell Nina 7th bred by I & M Steele in East Yorkshire, sold for 1,200gns.
Reserve Female Champion was Courance Kim a Hockenhull Socrates daughter bred by A W Jack of Courance Farms, she was unsold
4 haltered females were sold for a sales average of £1,155
5 unhaltered females were sold for a sales average of £1,115
Caistor Reduction Sale
6 cows with Calves/ and incalf sold to a sales average of £1,442
3 Maiden heifers sold to a sales average of £952.00
