A timed online production sale from Dr Peter Fitzgerald's Cherryvalley Beef Shorthorn herd from Crumlin, peaked at £13,300 for a March 2022-born heifer.

The sale conducted over three days through Ballymena Livestock Mart and H&H was topped by Cherryvalley Thriving, a Creaga Malibu-sired heifer out of the Ex94-classified Fearn Hopscotch Monique. She sold to breeder and professional photorapher Alfie Shaw, Glebefarm Livestock, Dungannon.

Commenting after the sale, Mr Shaw said: “We are delighted to have secured this beauty of a heifer to introduce a new female line into our herd. Her dam is a powerhouse of a cow, and we are excited to see how she calves down to Meonside Randango”.

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At £6500, Clive Richardson, Portadown, bought the April 2021-born Cherryvalley Sharon, a daughter of the herd's senior stock bull Creaga Logic, bred from Bushypark Beauty 12. She changed hands due in March to Creaga Malibu.

Cherryvalley Waterfall, a roan maiden heifer made £5000 selling to Co Armagh-based breeder JMW Farms.

Overall, four in-calf heifers averaged £6800 and five maiden heifers levelled at £3040.