The Lawson family, who have won many Craven Dairy Auction titles, sent out another champion at the Easter Monday fixture.

David and Claire Lawson, of Mill Farm, Arthington, saw their red rosette-winning second calver awarded championship honours by father and daughter show judges Edward and Georgina Fort, of Silsden Moor, who were making their debut as adjudicators in the Skipton dairy ring.

The title winner had calved five weeks before the show and came to market giving 40 litres. She sold for £2,200 to James Kayley, of Halton West.

The Lawsons also stepped up with the third prize newly calven heifer, 11 days calved and giving 28 litres, which achieved top price in show of £2,420 when joining Brian Blezard in Ribchester.

Close behind on £2,380 was another quality heifer from the Senterprise pedigree herd of reigning CCM Farmers of the Year, father and son Fred and Mark Houseman, who trade as Church Farm Enterprises at Burton Top Farm, Burton Leonard. She became another quality acquisition by Wilmot Blockley, of Tarvin.

The first prize newly calven heifer and reserve champion was shown by Peter Baul, of M Baul and Partners in Bishop Thornton. The 21-days calved 34-litre heifer made £2,000 on joining brothers Shaun and Peter Sowray in Bishop Thornton.

Multiple Craven Dairy Auction champions Brian and Judith Moorhouse, who run the Aireburn pedigree herd at Hesper Farm, Bell Busk, saw their second prize newly calven 30-litre heifer become a further James Kayley acquisition at £2,350.

The second prize newly calven cow, a pedigree third calver from John Midgley, of Luddenden, sold for £1,850 to Wick Williams, of Nantwich, while the third in class from Bingley’s Keith Downs was knocked down for £1,880, the top-priced commercial cow, again to the Sowrays.

Another pedigree Brown Swiss newly calven heifer from David and Pauline Brown in Ramsgill sold well at £1,650 to David and Sue Cockburn, of Warshill.

Easingwold’s Mick Corner again consigned a nice run of in-calf heifers, which made a clean sweep of the show class prizes and sold to a top of £1,720 – once more to the Sowrays – at an average of £1,550. With a much improved turnout of 42 dairy cattle, pedigree newly calven heifers averaged £1,840 per head, while the commercial average was £1,713, with a high of £1,820 for an entry from the Robinson family in Eldroth, this also falling to Wick Williams.

Pedigree newly calven cows averaged £1,834 and commercials £1,610. Maiden heifers averaged £810 each, with a high of £900 for an entry from R&E Pollard, of Colne. A nice run of heifer calves from Alan and Susan Throup, of Silsden Moor, sold to £370 at an average of £185.