Shows & Sales

A second-prize bull set a new UK breed record at the Highland Cattle Society’s spring show and sale at Oban when Iain MacKay and Claire Simonetta’s Jock of Cnoc Na Sith went under the hammer at 34,000gns

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Lockerbie, Gisburn, Thame, Penrith, Borderway, Dolgellau

Averages improved in all sections at the Luing Cattle Society’s Premier sale at Castle Douglas where heifers met a 100% clearance and all bar one bull sold to new homes with a top of 25,000gns

Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions company manager Peter Huntley discusses a strong year’s trade

Reggie Deakin, 21, is an assistant farm manager at Wigborough Wick Farm in St Osyth, Essex

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Junction 36, Penrith, Skipton, Darlington, Market Drayton and Gisburn

Limousin bulls sold to a high of 20,000gns, with 55 bulls sold and a clearance rate of 86%, the trade averaged £9,744, up £2,411 on the previous year

Beef Shorthorn bulls set a new record of 40,000gns at the first Stirling February showcase. With 55 bulls sold, the trade averaged £9,234, up £2,758 on the year

Crowds returned to United Auctions for the first of the February Stirling Bull Sales, where records were broken across breeds

Auctioneer at Bentham Auction Mart, Will Alexander discusses the state of current trade