PAST multiple champions Malcolm and Robert Swires swept the board when they returned to the Craven Dairy Auction arena at Skipton mart.
The father and son from Haverah Park, Beckwithshaw, won their 23rd title in October 2012.
But their Whinhill Holstein Friesian commercial dairy herd bounced back at the August fixture, taking both the championship, reserve championship and runners- up in each class.
The title winner was their first prize newly-calven heifer, ten days calved and giving 34 litres, which sold for £2,000 to Alf and Andrew Townsend, of Burnley.
The Townsends also paid £2,100 for the Swires’ reserve champion, their 18 days calved second calver cow, giving 40 litres.The Swires’ second prize heifer, 14 days calved and giving 34 litres, sold for £2,050 to Shaun Sowray, Bishop Thornton, along with their second prize eight days calved cow giving 38 litres, which joined Robert Metcalfe, of Brearton, Harrogate, for £1,900.
Pedigree newly calven heifers averaged £1,923, with first class newly-calven commercial heifers averaging £1,987.
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