ANOTHER super Saturday sale day at Skipton Auction Mart featured the monthly livestock collective sale, quarterly Agri-Trader Auctions and a special Border Fine Arts sale. (May 13)

In the Agri-Trader area, a full yard of 770 lots comprised 325 of machinery, 330 reclaim and 114 stone and timber, including a farm dispersal sale of livestock equipment on behalf of the Wells Family, Wilsden, from which emerged the day’s top price of £24,200 for a 2005 registered John Deere 6320 with 631 Loader.

In the vehicle line-up, a 2015 Landrover Defender truck cab with low mileage sold for £18,000, while a Class 355RC Round baler from 2011 with 7000 bales clocked sold for £9,500. A 30 year old JCB loadall 525-67 achieved £5,700.

In the grassland and muck equipment section, a Watson 3m Spike Roller in good condition sold for £5,700 and the lead trailer price from a long line-up of 20 was £4,200 for an Ifor Williams DP120 Livestock Trailer. Leading the way among the grassland equipment was a Kuhn 4121GM Masterdrive rake making £2,700 and a Krone Tedder £2,700.

There was plenty of interest in general plant and livestock equipment throughout the sale and items achieving good values. The next Agri-Trader and machinery sale is scheduled for July.

Of the 281 pieces entered for the Border Fine Arts sale, 81 per cent clearance was achieved at a ringside full of keen interest, with top price of £1,000 going to the Highland cattle family, six others selling at £600-£900.

The monthly sale of 219 stirks, weaned calves and young store cattle again saw a brilliant trade for a good mixture of bulls, bullocks, and heifers, with suckler and dairy-bred goods on offer.

Top price Blue bullocks sold to £980 from R Falshaw & Son, Gisburn, while Blue heifers topped at 865 from CM Dent & Son, Ripon, a pen of eight from DP Mitchell, Queensbury, making £830 each for 6-month-old goods.