Carnew Mart held its final dairy sale of the spring season on Thursday (May 20), with 81 lots on offer including: freshly calved cows/heifers; springers; bulling heifers; calves and breeding bulls.

Agriland made the trip to the Wicklow-based mart this week, to report on the demand for dairy stock as the spring sales come to a close.

With buyers back ringside, trade was steady with the higher quality stock on offer achieving the highest prices on the day.

Starting with the in-milk cows and heifers, the majority of animals on offer were Friesian, with a smaller number of crossbred Jersey and Fleckvieh cows present.

Prices ranged from €840 for a three spin Friesian cow, to €1,420 for a Mogul-sired cow producing 33L.

Click on a photo in the gallery (below) to open up a full-size image; once opened you can scroll sideways to see the next picture. Refer to each caption to see details of each lot, including the hammer price.

There was a total of ten springers on offer, with prices ranging from €700 for a crossbred cow due in three weeks, to €1,440 for a Friesian cow due on June 1.

There was a total of 23 lots on offer in the bulling heifers section of the sale, with prices ranging from €810 to €1,100 for a November 2019-born heifer, sired by GMI.

There was a total of eight calves on offer split into four lots; prices ranged from €210 (each) for a group of three April-born calves, to €270 (each) for a group of two April-born calves.

The final section of the sale was made up of three breeding bulls; there were two Friesian bulls on offer with one being sired by FR4368; they sold for €1,300 and €1,080.

The third bull was a Fleckvieh bull sired by Hooper, he sold for €1,300.