Lancaster dairy sale tops £2,600

Dairy trade peaked at £2,600 at Lancaster’s January Extravaganza.

The first in the ring, Sandley Patrick, from GH Sanderson and family, sold for the top price of the day at £2600 to Ling Dairies Carlisle. She is sired by Woodmarsh Merchant and bred from seven immediate EX cows who have had lactations in excess of 16,000 litres.
The supreme dairy champion Wyredale Seaver Sylvia 87 from MJ and H Atkinson made £2,420. By REW Seaver, she sold one month calved and giving in excess of 30 litres to an undisclosed Lancashire buyer.

Next best and achieving £2,150 was the reserve champion Enchanted Beraka Bang from Enchanted Holsteins. Sired by Shanael Planet Beraka and supported by two generations of VG, she sold to EH and L Fearon, Cartmel, giving 36 litres.

Judge Andrew Lawrie, Lanark, awarded the best pair of heifers to J Burrow and Son with Stardale Destined Vaakje and Stardale Reflex Vaakje 3, both of which made £1450 when selling to Barber Farms and A Lawrie, respectively.

Trade for cattle was slightly selective, with the majority of buyers feeling the pinch of the current milk price cuts. Best cattle sold well with four in excess of £2000, while good straight milking cattle sold between £1400-£1600.

Plainer cattle and cattle lacking milk sold around the £1100 mark.

Overall 51 lots averaged £1,350.

(NWA)