IT was another busy Saturday sales day at Skipton Auction Mart when more than 1,000 items went under the hammer at the latest agri-trader auctions of machinery, reclaim and salvage, furniture and collectibles.

New records were established in the machinery section, which attracted a bumper 416 individual entries.

A top price of £13,500 was paid - against a lower reserve - for a Valtra A95 Tractor consigned by Robert Greenwood, of West Marton, as part of an ongoing dispersal of items following Robert’s decision to cease active farming. The same vendor also made £6,000 with a 2014 Polaris Ranger.

A New Holland Tractor and Loader attracted a bid of £25,000, but failed to sell on the day despite a great deal of interest from both at home and abroad.

In the trailer section, AR Barker, of Halton Gill, took top price at £1,100 with a Graham Edwards flat bed trailer, which went to a purchaser from Consett in County Durham.

J and K Hartley, of Beamsley, sold a Hi-Spec spreader at £1,600 and Willie Bell, of Earby, a post knocker on a Kubota tracked dumper at £1,100.

Also on the agenda was the monthly fixture for 112 stirks, weaned calves and young store cattle, which met with the usual solid trade.

Catching the eye were a Hereford stirk at £740, a British Blue-cross heifer at £700, a Simmental-cross heifer at £590, a Simmental-cross bull at £540, a Limousin-cross heifer at £535, an Aberdeen Angus bull and a Saler heifer both at £520, and a Hereford heifer at £510.

Breeding and store sheep, and goats were also on offer, with the latter selling to £72 and the former to £52. Also sold were 72 lots of poultry and waterfowl, the day’s leading call of £42 falling to a pair of 20-week-old Wheaten Maran Pullets.