CHAROLAIS bull sold to 7,600gns at Welshpool to average 4,419.13 with a 58 per cent clearance rate.

Coccidiosis remains one of the most economically significant diseases in poultry production, estimated to cost the UK industry in excess of £99 million per year.

A broiler poultry enterprise is an ideal fit for the Hodgson family’s Cumbrian arable and farm contracting business.

THE timed on-line auction of pedigree Longhorn cattle hosted by Harrison and Hetherington saw a top price of 3,200 for bulls and 2,000 for females.

Bulls sold to 7,200gns and a new female average of 3,934 was set at the inaugural Hereford Cattle Society spring parade and sale at Shrewsbury which was supported by Farmers Guardian and had a 95 per cent clearance rate.

Multiple breed records were broken at the Dorset Diamonds sale at Ballymena held on behalf of the Northern Ireland Horn and Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders Club.

Setting up a beef enterprise to finish black and white bulls for Buitelaar Group has given Aidan Taylor the opportunity to return to work on the family farm in Lincolnshire.

Tuesday’s sale of Devon cattle at Sedgemoor saw a top call of 6,200gns for Knowstone Ferdinand 4 from father and son, John and Richard Stanbury, South Molton.

THE multibreed pedigree sale at Melton Mowbray included the Lincoln Red Cattle Society’s premier spring show and sale which provided the day’s top price of 8,000gns.