Thainstone beef breeding cattle top £4250 from Law Farm

Top price was £4250 paid for a Simmental cross cow with Charolais cross bull calf from C and M Emslie, Law Farm, Insch, purchased by J Durno, Mansefield.

Law Farm also sold the top priced bull at 6000gns, a three-year-old Charolais.

A Limousin cross heifer with Limousin cross heifer calf at foot from Messrs Smith, Towiemore, was tapped out champion and sold for £3500.

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Reserve champion WM Ewing receives the reserve honours from sponsor Michael Fotheringham from James Milne The judge Neil Robertson, Carbrotack, Cairnie, bought his choice of champion and presented the reserve honours to a Simmental cross heifer with Limousin cross calf at foot from W and M Ewing, South Blachrie. This outfit was knocked down at £3750 to WJ Jack and Son, Woodend.

The sale of 210 lots saw heifers with bull calf average £3243.18 having sold to £3850 for a Simmental cross heifer with March-born Charolais cross calf from Law Farm.

Heifers with heifer calf (36) averaged £3150, reaching a high of £3750 for a Simmental cross heifer and July-born Limousin cross calf from South Blachrie, Fyvie.

Cows with bull calf (66) levelled at £2918.31, with a top of £4250 paid for Simmental cross cow with March-born Charolais cross calf from Law Farm, Insch who also topped the cows with heifer calf (40) which averaged £2603.75, with a Simmental cross cow and April-born Charolais cross that made £3900.

In-calf cows (19) sold to £2200 twice for a Simmental cross from Law Farm and for a similarly bred entry from Cairntack, Belhelvie, to average £1985.79.

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Leading Awards

Heifers with male calf – Sim – 1, W and M Ewing, South Blachrie, Fyvie, £3400; 2 and 3, EM Smith and Sons, Towiemore, Keith, £3650 and £3600.

Heifers with female calf – Sim – 1 and reserve heifer with calf, and 2, Blackrie, £3750 and £3600; 3, Towiemore, £3500. Lim – 1 and champion heifer with calf, Towiemore, £3500; 2, South Blachrie, £2700.

Leading Prices

Towiemore – Heifers and autumn-born calves – Sim X – £3700, £3650, £3500; Sim – £3600, £3500, £3400; Lim X – £3500.

Wester Bleaton – Heifers and autumn-born calves – Sim X – £2850.

South Blachrie – Heifers and autumn-born calves – Sim X – £3750, 3600, 3500 (x2), £3450 (x2).

Eastfield of Monaltrie – Cows and summer-born calves – AAX – £2300 (x2), £2100 (x3).

Law Farm – Heifers and twins – £3850; heifer and bull calf – £3650; heifer and heifer calf – £3600; cows with second bull calf – £3900 (x2), £3850; cows with third bull calf – £4250; cows with fourth bull calf – £4100 (twins), £3900 (x2); aged cows with bull calf – £4000, £3800; cows with second heifer calf – £3900; cows with third heifer calf, £3350; in-calf heifers, £2800, £2700; bulls – 6000gns,4000gns.

Cairnhill – Cow and calves – Sim – £4000, £3550, £3400; Sim X – £3800, £3650, £3600, £3550; BSH X – £3450, £3400 (x2), £3350; in-calf cow – BSH X – £2100.

West Maldron – Cow and calves – Sim X – £3150, £2950, £2900, £2750; in calf heifers – SimX – £2150, £2120 (x3), £2050, £2020.

Upperton Farm – Cow and calf – Char – £3050.

Dunecht Home Farm – In-calf heifers – Lim X – £2300 (x3), £2100 (x2), £2020 (x2), £2000.