Dairy Report 15th June

Despite the superb haymaking weather there was a strong buyer presence round the dairy ring on Tuesday who had undoubtedly come out to do business.
The Crooks family of Staveley, Chesterfield showed three cows and two heifers from their impressive Inkersall herd with two of the second calvers reaching £2080 to Messrs Stubbs of Stapleton and the Nevilles of Matlock.
However it was a heifer from their famous Rolls family by Pine-Tree Arbor-Red that really caught the eye with the hammer eventually dropping at £2200 to Neil Stubbs of Hilderstone.
A British Friesian second calver from the Collycroft Herd of Messrs Archer reached £2030 with two other heifers from the Broadleys Brundcliffe herd both making £2000.
A Shorthorn X heifers from the Howe family of Litton reached £1900.
However it was a second calver in the commercial section that topped the day at £2220. From Messrs Brown of Burton Overy she also went to the Nevilles. Others of note in the commercial section was a Fleckvieh X third calver from the Wilds of Fulford that reached £1700.