Shows & Sales

There were celebrations for Bruce Goldie and family as they secured another Limousin championship at Borderway and their supreme champion and reserve bulls sold for the top two prices of 60,000gns and 55,000gns

The Farmers Guardian supported show and sale of show potential cattle at Brecon had clearance rate of 95% with heifers averaging £3,013.89 while the steer trade was up £1,028.86 on the year to average £3,711.36.

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