Shows & Sales

On her first time exhibiting at the English Winter Fair, held once again at Bingley Hall, Staffordshire, Rebecca Armstrong, Ledbury, took the top honours in the sheep ring with her pair of Beltex wether lambs.

Exhibitors were back at Stirling Agricultural Centre over the weekend as the eleventh Stars of the Future calf show got underway.

John Gent was announced as the winner of the inauguralDavid Thomlinson Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Borderway Agri Expo event.

Heifers led the supreme judging as the Borderway Agri-Expo event returned to Carlisle for the first time since 2019.

THREE days of Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association C District ram sales at Kirkby Stephen peaked at 60,000.

Blackface rams met a spectacular trade at Lanark, with ram lambs topping at 130,000 and the sale averaging 7,665, up almost 2,000 on the year.

Limousin bulls sold to a 9,000gns high, achieving an average of 5,085, up 433 on the year for 10 more sold with a clearance rate of 81 per cent.

SIMMENTALS met a top call of 18,000gns with the 57 bulls averaging 5,961, up 372 on the year for five more sold and with a clearance rate of 58 per cent.

Lowther females led the bidding in the Beef Shorthorn female section for Charles Lowther, Askham, Cumbria, with 11,000gns and 10,000gns bids for two maiden heifers.