Best ever trade at weekly market
The first green market at Shrewsbury Auction Centre last Tuesday saw an entry of 76 dairy cattle sell to the best trade ever seen at a weekly market.
The first green market at Shrewsbury Auction Centre last Tuesday saw an entry of 76 dairy cattle sell to the best trade ever seen at a weekly market.
Heifers sold to a top of £1,800 for both Graham Evans from Forden, near Welshpool with a heifer by his own bull, Lizbert and also for Jack Taylor from Harmer Hill, near Shrewsbury, with a Lookout heifer.
Twenty-three animals sold in excess of £1,500 and the entry of 49 heifers averaged £1,315. Only 11 out of the 49 made below the £1,000 mark.
Cows were in equally high demand with a top price of £1,520 for a ABS Romancer third calver from Messrs J. R. Wilkinson & Sons, Meifod, followed by £1,480 for an ABS Marcus second calver from Messrs G. A. G. Evans & Son, Trawscoed, Welshpool.
It was not only production animals that were in great demand, as in-calf heifers sold to a top of £1,180 for
Silverpost Sinatra, which was one month off calving, and bulling heifers to £780.
"The trend now seems to be set in the dairy world with higher milk prices, a shortage of cattle and inevitably high animal values," said market chairman and dairy expert David Giles.
