By Aly Balsom The National Spring Spectacular Show at Beef Expo, Malvern has just kicked off. I’ll bring you the results as they happen. A few classes took place last night, the results from them are: Commercial cattle classes Class 1: Heifer by a registered native sire 1st: DH Jones’ Welsh Black, Gwarcwn Meinir 25 [...]
CCM Skipton’s latest seasonal show of breeding hoggs with lambs at foot saw Raymond and Robert Johnson, of Felliscliffe, repeat their championship-winning with a pen of five Mules and lambs. The first-prize and reserve champion pen of Continental hoggs – five Texels with single Texel-cross lambs – was shown by Simon Bennett, of Silsden [...]
Top price at the dispersal sale of the MYMMS herd of Pedigree Aberdeen Angus, on behalf od Grangeheath Ltd, Matlock, was £2,900 for a 2007-born cow MYMMS Esterillias GO53. She was sold with her two-month-old heifer calf, by The Moss Quizmaster, at foot. There were other cow and calf outfits at £2,250 and £2,000. The [...]
Phenomenal trade for rearing calves, with all types of youngsters in solid demand, was seen at CCM Skipton’s May show this week. A high of £545 was achieved – the best individual price for some time. An overall average of £245.19 a head was achieved for the 44-strong turnout, much higher than of late. Show [...]
A new world record price of £9,240 has been set in the sheep dog world for a 15-month old black and white dog. Sheep dog enthusiasts from all over Europe turned out in force for the popular May sales fixture at Skipton Auction Mart, when Bob forward from John Bell, of Parks Farm, Howden, Selby [...]
Dairy Shorthorn Champion: Iain McLean’s Marleycote Princess. She is bred by GG Baynes and son and is sired by Marleycote Rampage and out of Marleycote Princess. Reserve: George Booth’s Beechview BS Whitehall, sired by Beechview Stwodamshof and out of Beechview tiny 3rd. Ayrshire Champion: John Hunter’s champion Ayrshire Ardmore Orphan 95, who was shown [...]
A pleasing trade on hoggs and lambs was realised at Knighton Market averaging £161.54 a pair and selling to £181 for White Faced Welsh Mule hoggs with Texel x lambs at foot from J L Jones and Partners, Llanrhys. Also to £180 for White Faced Welsh Mule hoggs with Texel x lambs at foot from [...]
Almeley Ginola, a black and white son of Drybarrows Cawdale, topped the British Blue Cattle Society’s sale at Carlisle. Consigned by G L and K S Morgan, Tillington, Herefordshire he stood intermediate male champion and sold to Messrs Coates’ Greystone herd at Settle, north Yorkshire. The Almeley herd crowed their victory by earning the day’s [...]
The championship rosette was awarded to Quilly Farms’ Sahara Goldwyn Ambrosia, under the watchful eye of dairy stalwart John Gribbons. This Braedale Goldwyn daughter was exhibited by Andrew Kennedy and is from the prolific female Toystory bloodline. Her dam, Smiddiehill Toystory Ambrosia, made 27,000gns at the Smiddiehill dispersal sale in 2008. Ambrosia was purchased for [...]
The long wool breeds reigned supreme in the sheep ring. Clinching the interbreed title was the champion Charollais female Miss Dior, bred and exhibited by Elizabeth McAllister. This shearling ewe is sired by Ballyhibben Kickstart and is out of a homebred dam. Standing in reserve was the Suffolk champion from the 100-strong pedigree Suffolk Lakeview [...]