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Sales at Thainstone, UA Stirling, Caledonian Marts, Lanark, Ayr, Newton Stewart, Quoybrae, and Dumfries featured. Moving round the UK, we’re back in Scotland and looking at markets across Scotland in this last two to three weeks and where flexible, efficient...
Simmental bulling heifers from Dorothy Moffat, Innerwick Farm, Dunbar sold strongly and to £2350 at the Scottish Simmental Club Annual Show and Sale sponsored by Carrs Billington and held within a sale of some 340 breeding cattle at Stirling on Monday May 2nd. From a quality offering a number of Innerwick heifers made over the £2000 mark with 14 in all averaging £1915.
Simmental cattle featured throughout the sale and to a top of £2600 for a Simmental X heifer with heifer calf at foot, and also for two Simmental X Heifers with bull calves at foot, from Iain Johnston, Kirkton. Some of the leading Simmental prices on the day included:
Bulling Hfrs: Innerwick(Sim) £2350, £2250 & £2200; WJ Millar, Huntingfaulds (SimX) £1850 & £1720.
Heifers and Bull Calves: Iain Johnston, Kirkton (SimX) £2600×2.
Heifers and Heifer Calves: Iain Johnston, Kirkton (SimX) £2600.
Cows and Bull Calves: Corsehillhead (SimX) £1850
Cows and Heifer Calves: Corsehillhead (SimX) £1850×2
Prize List judged by J Thomson, Hilton of Beath
Pen of 4 SimX bulling hfrs, over 15 months.
1st W Moffat, Innerwick £2350
2nd W J Millar, Hunting Faulds £1850
3rd M J & A M Mill, Shawsmill £1500
SimmentalX Heifer and Calf
1st Iain Johnston, Kirkton £2600
2nd Iain Johnston, Kirkton £2400
Thank you to all vendors for your support of this Scottish Simmental Club Sale of commercial breeding cattle, and thanks also to Carrs Billington for their valued sponsorship.
Carr’s Billington
