Stirling bull sales

Charolais bulls met a more select trade, selling to an average of £11,760, down £393 on the year, with 104 bulls sold at a clearance rate of 78%

Eight Luing bulls sold to an average of £12,250, up £97 on the year, with the 15 Salers bulls forward selling for an average of £8,211, up £2,698 on last year’s sale

Trade was booming at the second round of the February Stirling Bull Sales, with Simmentals selling to 30,000gns twice

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

Crowds returned to United Auctions for the first of the February Stirling Bull Sales, where records were broken across breeds

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

Charolais bulls topped at 18,000gns three times with the 86 bulls averaging £9,039.77 up £1,062 on the year with a 95% clearance

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