Shows & Sales

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.

Breed records were smashed at the Dalmally Blackface ram sale when a ram lamb from the Dalchirla flock at Muthill, Crieff, sold for 200,000 surpassing the previous top of 160,000, also set by Dalchirla, five years ago.

A question mark hangs over the future of next year’s major agricultural shows as tougher Covid restrictions come into place once again.

A top price of 35,000gns and an average of £6,683.85, up £905.87 on the year were the highlights of the sale of Limousin cattle at Carlisle.

Simmental bulls sold to a 14,000gns high for Islavale, with the average up 411 on the year at 5,589 and a clearance rate of 64 per cent.

Limousin bulls sold to a 9,500gns high, to average 4,652, down 143 on the year, with a clearance rate up 5 per cent on 2019 at 70 per cent.

A new world record price of 20,000 for a working sheep dog was set at Skipton’s online sale, along with new records of 4,200 for a sheep dog under ten months old and 3,700 for a sheep dog pup.

Beef Shorthorn bulls met a 6,200gns high, selling to an average of 4,410, up 971 on the year and a clearance rate of 64 per cent.

Cammock Nova, a September-2018 born bull from Niall and Katy Blair, Kilry, led the trade in the Salers section.

Females in the Beef Shorthorn section soared a 15,000gns high, marking a new female breed record price for John Elliot, Kelso.