A bull, Ampertaine Mozart, bred by James McKay, Maghera, Co. Derry topped the British Limousin Cattle Society’s sale in Carlisle on Saturday.
The January-2016 born son of Kype Orkney became the forth Limousin bull ever to breach the 100,000gns (£105,000) mark.
Procters Farm Ltd., located on the Lancashire-North Yorkshire border, secured the bull on the day.
Ampertaine Mozart was just one of the 128 bulls to sell and the average price paid was up by £1,294 on the previous year’s sale.
Bulls reached an average price of just over £7,712 and sold to a clearance rate of 88% – meaning that just 18 bulls failed to find new homes.
Some 47 bulls made 6,000gns (£6,300) and more and three bulls passed the 50,000gns (£52,500) mark. In total, the 273 Limousins (bulls and heifers) grossed £1.59m over the two day sale.
It was a sale that saw a huge demand from commercial producers, willing to pay top prices for the bulls of their choice, and was supplemented by some highlight pedigree prices.
The bull sale came hard on the heels of the female sale the previous afternoon that had seen top prices of 42,000gns (£44,100) and 35,000gns (£36,750).
In total, 145 heifer lots sold (up 65 on the year previous) to gross over £600,000.