“Peacehay” standout performance at SAC Collective

The continued lack of rain and resulting fodder concerns did not dampen the trade at the Sedgemoor Auction Centre August Collective dairy sale which witnessed 63 lots over £2,500 with 17 over £3,000 to a top call of £3,727.50.

Taking top honours was the VG85 calved Addison Blue Iris 218^th heifer from David & Ian Chave’s Peacehay herd.  The Chave family filled all 4 top spots for highest prices achieved with their 2^nd lactation Denver Peach 3^rd (VG85) selling for £3,570 as did their calved heifer Sid Squaw 14^th (GP-83-2YR).  Their consignment of 5 achieved an excellent £3,465 average.

Other highlights in the collective fresh milk section included the return of Longmoor Farm Ltd with their 2^nd lactation cows Pokemon Ivana 2^nd selling for £3,360 and Augustus Margie P £3,255.  Calved heifers from Dimond Farming Ltd by the Improbable sire and out of the renowned Whitetime family sold for £3,360 as did Clenchers Donte Whiteheather 2^nd from Rea & Son.

The eastern counties were well represented on the day with the Laker Farm Partnership of Surrey continuing their phased dispersal with commercial recorded cows selling to £3,412.50 for a July calved Boghill Glamour Santos daughter that had calved to her 2^nd and another fresh 2^nd lactation cow at £3,360.  D Murdoch & Sons from Kent consigned the dispersal of their non recorded, loose yard, all year around calving, crossbred cows whose quality saw them sell to £3,255 x 2 for two fresh second calvers.

A choice of 73 incalf heifers generated an electric trade with quality and breeding seeing a top call of £2,992.50 for the much admired red & white Otterwyn Diamonback Softee Red being part of the continued phased dispersal for RG Bowditch Ltd of Honiton Devon.  Close behand at £2,887.50 was the commercial heifer from Caseley Farm Dairy Ltd out of a Winfrith dam by the Cogent GC Liberty sire.  Bridgwater College’s Somerset Herd sold members of their Snowdrop and Sooty families both for £2,782.50.  At the same price was the commercial non recorded heifer due October to the Limousin from Robinson Farm Partnership of Hampshire.

Youngstock sold to £1,365 for the British Friesian bulling heifer Buston Danni 9^th being part of the last consignment to conclude the Buston Dispersal for R & R Gardiner of Oxon.  13mth old heifers from R P Sainsbury & Sons Ltd organic herd sold to £1,365 for Lyegrove Illusion Nadine 2^nd.  Commercial non recorded heifer calves to £577.50 x 2 for the Allen family of Glos.

A day when quality defiantly counted saw buyers both in the ring and online to include a strong contingent from Cornwall and representatives from Worcestershire and Wales produced the following averages: