Shows & Sales

Averaging £4,903, the 164 in-calf heifers peaked at £12,000 at the Jalex Select autumn sale held on behalf of James Alexander, on-farm at Randalstown, Northern Ireland, but it was a pedigree Limousin bull that topped the entry at £12,500

A new breed record of £34,000 was set at the sale of South Country Cheviots at Lockerbie when the champion from the Warden family’s Skelfhill flock, Hawick, hit that price as a total of 10 rams sold for five-figure prices

A quality line-up of almost 300 cattle made for some stiff competition at this year's Dairy Show in Shepton Mallet.

Catch up with all the news from around the marts this week including sales at Lairg, Kirkby Stephen, Castle Douglas, Leyburn, Skipton and more

The Bluefaced Leicester Sheep Breeders Association show and sale at Hawes drew visitors from all parts of the country who witnessed a new breed record of £88,000 set

There was a strong entry of cattle North East Live with heifers taking all the top tickets

In this latest series of Sale Ring Stories series, Angela Calvert visits Hawes for the Bluefaced Leicester Sheep Breeders Association sale

Oliver Watson, trainee auctioneer at Harrison and Hetherington, provides an update on current trade and looks ahead to pedigree in-lamb sales and Borderway Mart's Agri Expo event

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Market Drayton, Lazonby, Castle Douglas, Clitheroe, Carlisle and Skipton