MARK Smith, a commercial dairy farmer from Winterburn, took the champion and reserve championship with two near all-white home-bred newly-calven heifers at the August Craven Dairy Auction at Skipton mart on Monday (13). Both were by the all-white bull Aireburn Snowman, acquired from Bell Busk breeders Brian and Judith Moorhouse.
The champion was Brackenlea Snowy Spotty 4, a 22 days-calved 33kg heifer with a low cell count of 56 and out of a dam that had given more than 10,000kg in her first lactation over 305 days.
Reserve was a heifer from his Brackenlea Snowy Stumpy line, 13 days calved and also giving 33kg. Roger Nelson from Langbar paid £1,550 for the champion and £1,500 for the reserve.
The day’s top price of £1,650 fell to the Glusburn-based Fort family, who are conducting an ongoing dairy dispersal sale. The heifer, calved for just ten days to the Genus Sire Theory and giving 21kg, joined SM Liddle & Sons in Huby.
South Stainley’s Robin Jennings, champion at the previous show, made
£1,450 with a newly-calven heifer, with the section producing an overall selling average of £1,320.
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