Messrs L & R Allison, Seacoast Road, Limavady, Co Antrim secured the 4,000gns top price at the British Limousin Cattle Society’s Sale (BLCS) of haltered and unhaltered females held at Ballymena Mart on Saturday 14th January 2012.
With purchasers from the Republic of Ireland and the UK mainland also in attendance, 24 of 26 females found homes at a very healthy clearance rate of 92%. The demand for quality Limousin females at Ballymena, at what was the first BLCS sale of 2012, continued the strong trade of 2011 which saw over £7 Million of pedigree Limousin stock sold at Official Society sales. Overall, 24 lots averaged £1,920 up £245 on the year, the top average for females attained at a BLCS sale held in Northern Ireland since May 2009.
The top-priced female, Scotchtown Freda, showed both presence and power in the sale ring and caught the eye of many potential buyers. June 2010 born, this in-calf heifer is sired by the prolific 42,000gns Wilodge Vantastic and is out of the homebred dam, Scotchtown Sally, a Shire Milton daughter. Holding a Beef Value of LM+32, she realised 4,000gns when selling in-calf to the 100,000gns bull Haltcliffe Vermount. Scotchtown Freda now heads to S Ireland to the Tomriland pedigree herd of Mr N Kenny, Ashtord, Co Wicklow.
