Sunnyside champion calf leads at £3200
AVERAGES improved on the year at Harrison and Hetherington’s prize show and sale of suckled calves at Carlisle, where 420 head levelled at £1220.90 – up £47.62.
Steers cashed in at £1229.97 (+£40.97) with heifers at £1213.39 (+£52.39), having sold to £3200 for the overall champion from Shona Laird, Sunnyside, Cumnock.
Her supreme, selected by judges, Gordon and Harry Amos, West View, Lincolnshire, a Limousin cross heifer was purchased by local farmer Amy Wilson, Hardrigg Hall, Penrith.
The reserve overall, was the first prize Limousin steer from David Wright, Woodend, which later sold for £1600 to Messrs Bently, The Gables, Keswick.
Second top price was £2800 paid for a Limousin cross heifer from Gary Bell, Haas Side, Lockerbie.
John and Craig Robertson, Newton of Logierait, Pitlochry, also had a good day, selling the lead priced steer, a Limousin cross at £2100, with heifers of the same cross to £2300.
LEADING prices
Steers – Lim – £2100, £1520 (x2), £1500 Newton of Logierait; £1940, £1800, £1740, £1680, £1620, £1540 Cracrop; £1650 Balgray Hill; £1600 Woodend; £1580, £1540, £1460 Newton High House; £1550 Haas Side Farm; £1550, £1460 Sunnyside. BB – £1740, £1700 Cracrop; £1720 Newton High House; £1570 Sunnyside; £1540 Newton High House; £1340 Balgray Hill, £1240 Sunnyside. Char – £1290, £1220, £1210, £1200 Spout Bank.
Heifers – Lim – £3200 Sunnyside; £2800 Haas Side; £2300, £1520, £1490, £1350 Newton of Logierait; £1700, £1510, £1410, £1400, £1380 Cracrop; £1520, £1380, £1360 Newton High House; £1520, £1490, £1460, £1385 Claycrop; £1490, £1410, £1360, £1355 Balgray Hill. Char – £1820 Claycrop: £1030 (x2) Spout Bank. BB – £1540 Thirlwall Castle; £1300 Newton of Logierait; £1210, £1200 Balgray Hill.