A STEETON farmer was among vendors and buyers who found success at Skipton Auction Mart’s June prime shows.
Well-known local Suffolk breeder Mark Evans, of Tower Gate Farm, Steeton, picked up another Skipton red rosette with his pen of five home-bred lambs.
The sheep, auctioned in the Down-cross show class, sold for £126 per head to the Millstones Restaurant in Kettlesing.
Simon Bennett, of Silsden Moor, made £1,109 – a price of 233.5p per kg – with his third-prize-winning Limousin-cross steer.
The animal was bought by Countrystyle Meats Farm Shop in Lancashire, while Mark’s other animals were bought by Stanforths Butchers in Skipton and T Appleton & Son Butchers in Boroughbridge.
Countrystyle farm is a major buyer at Skipton, at the latest sale taking home four cattle.
Show judge Simon Barker, who owns Stanforths Butchers, awarded the reserve championship to the first prize steer, a 555kg British Blue-cross from Charles and Richard Kitching, of Threshfield.
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