A bright trade prevailed throughout for the Scot family's Northern Lights breeding sale of Beef Shorthorn cattle at Fearn Farm, Tain, where prices peaked at £8300.
The sale, staged through Yourbid was topped by the Fearn Godfather son, Fearn Peroni (P), purchased by Lucinda Townsend, Coxhill, Moffat, followed at £7800 by Fearn Pitmaduthy (P), a Fearn Jimmy son, which sold to Patrick Harrison, Balliefurth.
Fearn Monarch sons, Fearn Plockton (P) and Fearn Platinum (P) sold to Antrim Estates, Northern, and David Baillie, Calla, for £7600 and £7300 respectively.
The Monarch daughter, Fearn Bonny P1839 topped the in-calf heifers at £4500 selling to Fraser Tweed, Glenarm, Northern Ireland.
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Both the top priced bull Peroni and in-calf heifer Bonny P1839 have the same maternal genetics – Fearn Bonny J358 (P), dam and grand-dam respectively, from New Zealand’s Austins Bonny 08064.
Another top seller at £4000 was Fearn Isobel P1801, purchased by RG Elliot and Sons, Norborough Lodge, Northants. Stuart Currie, Beautry House also bought a heifer at £4150.
Averages: 10 bulls, £5680; 15 in-calf heifers £3030 and in-calf cows, £3167. Semen – 100 straws, £56 per straw with Dakota straws at £195.
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