Quality Cattle sold across the country!
December 2025
The final dispersal sale of 2025 at Sedgemoor Auction Centre drew a good crowd to witness the 10,466 kg commercial herd from Ray Gibbins and family of Clyst Hydon, Cullompton sell to £3570 for the second cow through the ring, being an October calved second lactation daughter of Blumenfeld Sedona ET giving 42kgs. Despite the recent tumbling milk prices, easing of cull cow demand and general concerns over the dairy industry the quality of the cattle on offer saw 8 breaking the £3,000 barrier.
Fresh milk and young cows were in strong demand as were the summer calvers with the superb 4th lactation July calved cow due again in June by Rodonwa Patron Sharman selling for £3360. Other fresh 2nd lactation cows by Sedona and Genhotel Harley P sold to £3255, £3150 x 2 and £3045.
Calved heifers by Wilra Knowhow calved in September topped at £3150, with October calvers at £2992.50 and £2730.
The trade for January / February milk was defiantly off the boil and second quality cows harder to place. This was repeated with the incalf heifers that were calving at two years of age which topped at £1837.50 for daughters of Bomaz Watson ET due in March.
Just shy of 40 individual purchasers from across the southwest plus Cheshire, Leek, Welshpool, Whitland and Worcestershire ensured an excellent average on the day of £2005 for all of the cows and heifers that calved throughout the year including faults and £1464 for the incalf heifers that were due from January to June 2026.
The fodder sold at the start of the sale achieved £64 per tonne for clamp maize.