• 5000gns Tidkin Cow and Calf leads Tidkin & Jet Dispersal Sale• 15 Tidkin cows and calves average £3353• 28 Simmental lots in all gross £94,920• 4 Bulls average £5565 Bulls from the Chestermann herd of N&N Gwynne, Castlewigg Farm, Whithorn, Newton Stewart,...
A very stylish and powerful heifer was how judge David Lowry described the supreme Simmental champion at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society’s 153rd annual show, held at Balmoral Park. Mr Lowry who runs the 65-cow Keeldrum Herd based at Lanark in Scotland, returned...
17 bulls sell, up 8 on the year, to average £3996 7 bulls sell at 4000gns and more Popes herd lifts Champion & Reserve in the bulls Fole Dispersal Sale tops at 3200gns Grangewood Lucas 5,500gns Grangewood Lucas from Mr & Mrs AS&YA Leedham, Rowan Farm,...
Trade was brisk at the Welsh Club sale at Welshpool market on 17th May, judged by Mr Robert Vincent.
A top and a centre record for Simmental Bulls of 5200gns was achieved for Crackley Blackjack form M/s Booth and Bell, Crackley Farm, Crackley Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, purchased by RI & G Davies, Penlanlwyd, Llangamarch Wells, Powys.
Second top from Mr & Mrs R &L Storer Smith was Scarthingwell Comet bred by Mr & Mrs D Pick, he sold for 4000gns to Mr C M Mercer, Bowley Court Farm, Hope Under Dinmore, Herefordshire.
Best on the females was the female champion from Mr B T Raymond Ben-Nant Brilliant sold for 2400gns to D E & D A T Lloyd, Hengoed, Four Roads, Carmarthen.
Averages:
6 bulls @ £3622
8 females @£1553
