It’s raining…and not just a little bit. It’s pouring – and you couldn’t ask for a better day for the sale! With cropwork at a standstill all week in northeastern Quebec, the crowds came early to enjoy a complimentary breakfast and look over the lineup at Ferme Pierre Boulet in Montmagny. Sale time is approximately 9:30am with embryos selling first. Check back often for updates!

The Snapshots at Starmark sale has concluded. It was a beautiful day in Wooster at the Snapshots of Starmark Sale. In the end the Holsteins unofficially averaged $8929.51 on 70 full lots and the Brown Swiss unofficially averaged $7804.35 on46 full lots. Both breed averaged on $8637.38 116 lots. The sale grossed $1,001,925.

The rest of the Swiss are selling and the highlights inlclude B9 – Round Hill Legacy Flyhi ET selling for $35,000 to Main & Vail of Elite Dairy. She is a Legacy daughter of Brook Run Jetway Fern E-93. Flyhi’s Power Surge daughter born in March went through the ring next and brought $19,000! She was purchased by Cindy & Reese Warner. Both were consigned by Richard Martin and Kulp Genetics.

B35 sold for $14,500 to True Farms Inc. of NY. She was consigned by Forest Lawn Farm of WI and is a full sister to the 2008  HM All-American Jr. 2-Year-Old.

28H – $9300 – sold to Wade Yardley
11H – $9500 – Adam Yoder & Donny Swartzeutruber
8H – $10,200 – Robert & Kathy Yeoman and Ron & Emily Heffner
21H – $12,000 – Jim Keadle
17H – $25,000 – Cybil Fisher

The first half of the Brown Swiss have sold and averaged $9,000 on 24 lots.

Below is a photo of Lot 29 – who brought $19,500 and sold to Rejean Mathys. She is a fancy Summer Yearling sired by Wondermint and out of Timberline Denmark Angela 2E-94, a perrenial show ring contender. She was consigned by Main & Vail of Elite Dairy.

Holsteins are back in the ring now and the first one through was lot 73H – West Port SG Sanador-Red, the All Canadian R&W Fall Calf last year who has already been Junior Champion this year at the New York Spring Show. She sold to Binder, Vail, Adam’s & Woodmansee for $33,800 and was consigned by Chris and Jenn Hill.

More top prices…

25H – $25,200 to Tom Gretz Jr.

72H – $16,000 sold to Pen-Col Farms

The first 22 lots of Holsteins have been through the ring and averaged $13,940.

Now the Brown Swiss are in the ring! Wayne Sliker has taken over on pedigrees and Steve Andrews is calling the Swiss. The Brown Swiss catalog can be found at www.holsteinworld.com or by click here.

The first through the ring was lot B5 – Old Mill JP Grace-ET. You may have seen her Old Mill’s ad in the last issue of AllBreed Access, she is a 2 time All-American nominee and looks good enough to do it again this year! She sold for $35,000 to Elite Dairy in NY.

Lot B1 in the ring – she sold for $16,500 to Starmark & KI-JA-MAR

B7, a daughter of Snickerdoodle sold for $7900 to Larry & Beanie Hill

More top prices…

B13 – $15,000

B14 – $7900

b12 – $9000

B29 – $19,500 to Rejean Mathys

B24 – $10,000

13H – $14,000 sold to Kevin Winter
5H – $14,000 to Jeff Butler
24H – $9,700 purchased by John Travis Couch
65H – $7800
53H – $8,100 to Ryan Lingle

Swiss are about to start selling!

Lot 12H – the 4th highest Genomic tested heifer in the breed just sold for $88,000 to Marit ina Holsteins of Argentina! She is a 7/08 Mac daughter of Calbrett Shottle Lucy VG-88 and was consigned by Todd Whittier and Cybil Fisher. She has a PTPI of +2390G.

Lot 12H – Whittier-CF Mac Lucina-ET in the ring with Chris Lahmers on the halter.

Brian Garison was working the phone and the crowd as she sold.

6H – a Laurin daughter of Idee Lustre 3E-95  sold for $12,000 to Jonathan & Alicia Lamb.

32H – $5500

53H – $8100

46H – $6700

31H -$9200 – sold to Mark Frederick

26H has taken the top spot, selling for $29,500 to Howard Binder & Associates.

Lot 7H, A Durham out of Ashlyn sold to Jeff Butler for $19,000.

Some photos from the start of the sale…

Amy Dudte of Starmark welcomes the crowd to the sale.

Lot 1H in the ring. She was Unanimous R&W All-American Spring Calf in ’07.

Lot 26H in the ring, she sold for $29,500. She was nominated All-American as a Spring Yearling.