Red Rose beef farmer Jim Baines presented both the champion and reserve champion at CCM Skipton’s August prime cattle show and sale on Monday.

Mr Baines, who farms in both Trawden and Clitheroe, secured his latest successes with two solid British Blue-cross heifers. The 485kg title winner sold for £1,234, or 254.5p/kg, top price by weight, with the runner-up making £1,205, or 229.5p/kg. Both fell to Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford.

John and Alison Spensley, of Manor Farm, Thorlby, were again to the fore with the third prize heifer, another British Blue-cross sold for £1,174, or 221.5p/kg, to Halifax meat wholesalers J&E Medcalf. The Spensleys also achieved the day’s leading per head price of £1,360, or 228.5p/kg, for a Blonde-cross heifer acquired locally by Stanforths Butchers in Skipton.

Prime cattle over 30 months sold to an overall average of £819.72 per head, or 120.99p/kg, headed by a black and white heifer from Arthur Beecroft, of Fewston, at £970, or 139.5p/kg.

A standalone show for cull cattle saw the championship awarded to the first prize beef-bred animal, an Aberdeen Angus-cross from David Wellock, of Hurries Farm, Otterburn. The victor sold for £1,011, or 138.5p/kg, to Nigel Breaks, of Slaidburn.

Reserve champion was the first prize dairy-bred cow from Stuart Verity, of Whitewell, acquired at £958, or 129.5p/kg, by Dawn Meats, of Carnaby, Bridlington.

The day’s top per head and by-weight price fell to a British Blue-cross cow from Tim Metcalfe, of Clayton, Bradford, at £1,073, or 155.5p/kg. The buyer was Andrew Atkinson, of Felliscliffe.

The overall selling average for the 41 cast cattle forward was £679.56 per head, or 107.72p/kg.