Eager buyers for breeding cattle forces sale to top £2400
Eager buyers but fewer cattle forward at Friday’s sale of breeding cattle,
Leading the sale at £2400 and £2250 was a
Next in the money were two bids of £2200 and another at £2150 for a run of cows and calves with heifers from
A consignment of four British Blue heifers and calves forward from Messrs Dickinson of High Knipe topped at £2100 for a British Blue and averaged £1925.
Breeding bulls met a tremendous trade with a pedigree British Blue topping the trade at £3570 from Parkhouse Farming Co Ltd, Aikton, Wigton
Leading prices:-
Cows & Calves:
Heifers & Calves:
In calf Heifers: British Blue £1700 Howgill Farm.
In calf cows: British Blue £1500 Howgill Foot, £1400 Kinkry Hill.
Breeding Bulls: British Blue £3570 Parkhouse.
(Harrison and Hetherington)