Highland Cattle breeders endured severe weather conditions to get to the show and sale at Oban on Monday.

The sale of South Country Cheviot hill rams at Lockerbie peaked at £18,000 twice.

There was a spectacular display of heavy horses on display on the final day of the Horse of the Year Show at the NEC Birmingham.

Setting a Hampshire Down breed centre record price of 2,500gns at Carlisle was a shearling ram from J. and S. Livestock’s Seawell flock, Northamptonshire

Holstein breeders from throughout the UK and Southern Ireland descended on Wills Brothers’ farm, Wadebridge, Cornwall, for a sale and open day celebrating the work and memory of Anthony Wills, who sadly passed away a year ago

The sale of North Country Cheviot rams at Lockerbie peaked at £16,000 twice

At the sale of North Country Cheviot Park sheep at Lockerbie rams sold to £12,000 and averaged £1,207.43.

Last year’s record average was broken once again at this year’s Kelso ram sales, where the 3,444 rams sold averaged £1,056.35; up £57 on the year with an 81 per cent clearance and a turnover of £3,638,070

Native champion goes on to take inter-breed title

THE pre-sale show champion, the ram lamb Hilltop Goliath, led the trade at 90,000gns at the Solway and Tyne Texel Club sale at Carlisle.