Dalesbred sheep have been the choice of the Fawcett family for generations but with the agricultural industry facing challenging times they believe the breed has much to offer present day farmers.

The English National Sheep Dog Trials will be held in South Yorkshire for the first time later this month. Angela Calvert visited host Graham Pears, ahead of the event.

It was a successful first-time appearance at the Suffolk Sheep Society’s national show and sale at Shrewsbury for Michael Ludgate of the Rempstone flock, Thorne, Oxfordshire, who topped the sale at 30,000gns

Claiming the pig inter-breed title was a Duroc, from Oliver Giles, West Sussex

It was the Jersey champion which was the choice of judge, Mark Logan, Northern Ireland to take the supreme dairy title

The Scottish area branch of the Suffolk Sheep Society show and sale at Lanark topped at 52,000gns for a ram lamb from Stewart Craft Farming’s Lakeview flock, Glenrothes.

THE online sale of working sheepdogs hosted by Farmers Marts (R.G. Jones), Dolgellau, had an entry of 130 and a clearance rate of 75 per cent.

Skipton’s opening show and sale of store lambs saw 2,910 head average of £89.28, an increase of £4.64 on 2022.

The long journey from Launceston, Cornwall, to Harrogate paid off for Julian Collings, who has been showing pigs for 53 years.

Two days of judging a record entry of more than 3,500 sheep culminated in the inter-breed championship where the MV-accredited champion and reserve went on to take the top awards