Shows & Sales

Selling for a breed record for the October sale of 36,000gns was the overall and junior champion, Goldies Volvo from Bruce Goldie, Mouswald

David and Tom Bradley Farmer led both male and female Beef Shorthorn trade

Simmental bulls were a flying trade topping at 30,000gns with another record average of £11,070, up £3,636 on last year for 12 more bulls sold and with a with a clearance rate of 80%

A solid trade for Aberdeen-Angus bulls peaked at 18,000gns with the 32 bulls averaging £7,656, a rise of £580 on 2024 with a clearance rate of 84%

Rams from the Jenkins family set not one but two breed records at the sale of Welsh Mountain sheep at Dolgellau

The stars of the equine world were on display at the Horse of the Year Show held at the NEC Birmingham

A round up of this week's auction mart sales including reports from Louth, Stirling, Exeter, Clitheroe and Cockermouth

NO fewer than five rams sold for five-figure price tags at the Bluefaced Leicester sale at Carlisle, where a crossing ram from the Wight family's Midlock flock topped at £20,000

Stephen Dodsworth is auctioneers’ assistant at Darlington Farmers Auction Mart and organiser of North East Live

A round up of this weeks auction mart sales including from Longtown, York, Cutcombe, Kirkby Stephen and Darlington