2010-02-05
At Skipton Auction Mart’s February prime cattle show, the victor, a British Blue bullock from L Bamforth & Sons, Wainstalls, sold locally for £1,058 (203.5p per kilo) to S & J Dorsey Butchers for their meat stall in Borough Market, Halifax. (Mon, Feb 1)
The Skipton February prime beef champion, with exhibitor Jonathan Cockroft, left, stockman with L Bamforth & Sons, and judge James Dewhurst.
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The top-priced beef animal also came from Calderdale, as did the buyer. The British Blue heifer from Brian Lund, Walshaw, Hebden Bridge, was knocked down for £1,074 to Gerald Medcalfe, Halifax.
Brian Lund also had the second highest priced pen of the day in the prime lamb show with five 45kg Texels, which sold for £101.50 per head to Stuart Price Butchers, Crossflatts, Keighley, through ringside representative Mick Etherington.
In addition, Mr Lund sent out the first prize Suffolk prime lambs, acquired at £92.50 by Andrew Atkinson, Kettlesing.
The February prime lamb champions, with exhibitor Stephen Pepper, right, and judge James Dewhurst.
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The prime lamb champions were presented by Stephen Pepper, Oxenhope, who won the corresponding fixture last year and was reserve champion at the January prime lamb show. His latest victors, a pen of five 44kg Beltex-cross-Texel lambs, sold for the top price of £103 each to wholesalers Samuel Howarth, Diggle, Manchester.
The same buyer also paid £98 a head for the reserve champion pen of 50kg Texel-cross lambs from Jimmy Baines, Trawden, the reigning Craven Cattle Marts’ Stock Person of the Year.
Victory in a standalone prize show for Swaledales, sponsored by the Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association, went to Robert Crisp, Calton, with a ten-strong 47kg pen of wether lambs, all bred from rams belonging to fellow Swaledale stalwarts and near neighbours Roy Nelson, Bordley, and Bill Cowperthwaite, Malham Moor.
They were acquired for £87 each by Ali Shan, of Yorkshire Halal Meat Supplies, a regular Skipton primestock buyer.
Judge for both shows was James Dewhurst, of Stanforth Butchers, Skipton.
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