Shows and Sales

No fewer than seven animals surpassed the £8,000 mark at the March show and sale of show potential cattle at Borderway where the trade was led by a Limousin cross heifer at £15,000

The pedigree bull sale at the Royal Northern Spring Show at Thainstone peaked at 13,000gns for the champion Simmental

Borderway UK Dairy Expo 2026 will feature a new headline award, elite cattle from the UK’s leading herds, an international panel of judges and a major trade exhibition

There was a big crowd at Barnard Castle for the Farmers Guardian supported show and sale of show potential cattle where the majority of entries were seven to 12 months of age

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

Scott Donaldson, group director of H&H based in Carlisle, raised the question of who benefits from the data collected in the performance recording and pedigree information of cattle

Farmers Guardian livestock and features editor highlights some of the challenges facing agricultural shows

Leading the trade at 17,000gns at the British Blue Cattle Society sale at Carlisle was first prize winner, Pendle Umpire from A.M. and E. Hartley, Nelson

Bulls from the Evans family’s Llwynhywel herd will be making the long trip to Stirling Bull Sales

Hamish Goldie has known Charolais all his life. His father Jim was one of the first to import them into the UK in 1969 and he now runs his own successful Goldies herd at South Bowerhouses, Dumfries