The Farmers Mart Apr-May 2018 - Issue 56 | Page 50

50 MIDHOPE HALL FARM APR/MAY 2018 • farmers-mart.co.uk Proud suppliers to Craig Hollingsworth at Midhope Hall Farm 71320 - SelbyAuctionMart - 8TH.pdf 1 29/03/2018 12:15:29 C M Y CM MY CY SELBY LIVESTOCK AUCTION MART LTD “YORKSHIRE’S FRIENDLY LIVESTOCK MART” Weekly Sales of Fatstock - Wednesdays Pigs 9am - Sheep 9.45am - Cattle & Cows 10.30am Store Stock - Saturdays Pigs 9.15am - Sheep 9.45am - Cattle 10.45am On alternate Saturdays Fur, Feathers & Miscellaneous items at 9:30am CMY Entries taken on the day and from 9am to 4pm on Friday prior to sale K Pleased to be associated with the Hollingsworth family and wish them continued success Tel: [phone] Email: [email protected] www.selbymart.co.uk Auctioneer Richard Haigh 0776 8594535 and you can’t sell a pedigree bull in the main pedigree sales in March (Newark) and April (Carlisle) if they are older than two years. In the past 18 months we’ve pulled out several the older cows, selling to private buyers and other breeders, so that we can introduce our own younger replacements. Our trade in both selling pedigree stock and commercial bulls remains strong.’ ‘Last year we sold 14 pedigree bulls with four going to pedigree breeders and the rest to commercial men including three to dairy farms. Our reputation means we get a lot of repeat trade. We sell all our commer- cial bulls into the meat trade and could sell hundreds of females to other commercial breeders.’ We are proud to be associated with John & Craig Hollingsworth of Midhope Hall Farm Agricultural & Rural Supplies Customer Services - 01228 518860 carrs-billington.com Midhope Holy Light National championships, Great Yorkshire Show titles and top sale prices have come their way in the past decade and it all started with a purchase made in February 2007. ‘What got us going was Dirnanean Snowie a bull I’d bought up in Perth for 11,000 guineas. Prior to him we would have paid no more than 3000 for any bull. We didn’t show him, but we showed his progeny. I had gone down with a bad illness that saw me in hospital for 19 weeks. The first heifer we showed was Midhope Malinda II at Lincolnshire Show in 2009 and she came second in her class. Fellow breeders David and Jayne Pick beat us that day but helped us afterwards. David is sadly no longer with us now and was a lovely man. He’d never