WHILE prices for the 47 cull cows forward at Monday’s prime cattle sale were slightly down on the week at a few pence below £700 per head, or 109.4p/kg, trade was still judged to be satisfactory.

There was a good selection on offer, with British Blue, Limousin, Blonde, Saler, Aberdeen Angus and dairy cows, both black and white and Shorthorn, among the turnout, producing a per head high of £972 for a black and white from Broughton’s Jeremy Taylor, who also presented the top price Blue at £928.

The by-weight peak of 138.5p/kg fell to a Limousin cow from Martin and Val Brown, of Newton-le-Willows, Bedale, with the couple also stepping up with the top price Blonde-cross at £769.

Also noteworthy were an Aberdeen Angus-cross from CH and OF Hammond, of Padside, Summerbridge, at £911, and a £906, or 137.5p/kg, Saler from Beeston Hall Farms in Ripponden.

The nine clean cattle on parade achieved a gross high of £1,153 (184.5p/kg) for a Hereford-cross steer from Ed and Sharron Parker, of Bradley, with Thorlby’s John and Alison Spensley again to the fore with a top price by-weight British Blue-cross heifer at 185.5p/kg (£1,150).