SKIPTON. - Mon of last week. Fwd: more than 40 cattle for June Craven dairy auction. Judges: Malcolm & Stephen Abbott, Ings Farm, Dacre, Harrogate. Champion: JD Taylor & Son, Small House, Broughton, home-bred newly-calven pedigree Holstein hfr, Smellows Ruben Mavis, by Bosside Ruben £1,150 to Richard & Yvonne Wood, Crossroads, Keighley; res: EA&MM Jennings, Hill House Farm, Fountains, £1,100 to the judges.

Prices. - Mark Falshaw, Gargrave, cow £960; JD Taylor & Son, newly-calven hfr £1,040; Brian Hall, Gargrave, 4 in-calf hfrs to £920; Brian Moorhouse, Bell Busk, 2 newly-calven hfrs £980, £920, second-calver cow £930; George Stapleton, Skibeden, newly-calven hfr £880; Edward Fort, Silsden, newly-calven hfr £880; Malcolm Dibb, Kilsney, newly-calven hfr £830; Malcolm Booth, Lothersdale, in-calf hfr £800