The Great Bonanza Suffolk female sale held on-farm on behalf of Messrs Sufferin’s, Crewelands flock, Maghera, and Messrs Tait’s, Burnview flock, Gorton Glen, along with guest consignors peaked at 8,400gns.

Between the Beltex Sheep Society and its members, 1,700 has been donated to charities supporting the rural community.

Salers from Patrick Boyd’s Drumaglea herd, Isle of Tiree, led both the male and female trade at the Farmers Guardian supported breed society sale at Castle Douglas.

CLIFTON Ace, a bull from Anne Bell, Southwick, Dumfries, led the trade at 8,000gns at the sale of Belted Galloways at Wallets Marts, Castle Douglas.

The Perdi and Knighton flocks of Bleu du Maine, Charollais, Rouge and Bluefaced Leicester sheep on behalf of the executors of the late Percy and Diana Tait, Worcester, held at Worcester market saw 132 lots average 1,557.

THE two-day sale of shearling rams at Hawes on behalf of the Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association ‘B’ district peaked at 38,000.

WHEN Lance Charity took on the tenancy of a county council arable farm, he knew he would have to take every opportunity to maximise income from it.

POST mortem reports consistently show that the increase in sudden deaths in lambs in the autumn is down to pasteurellosis.

THE three days of Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association ‘C’ District ram sales at Kirkby Stephen topped at 60,000 for Mark Nelson from the Bull and Cave flock, Clapham.

A new breed record and an all-breeds Irish record of €52,000 (47,062) was set at the Simmental premier sale at Roscommon when Clonagh Lucky Explorer sold to the Wood family’s Popes herd, Preston.