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CLIFTON Ace, a bull from Anne Bell, Southwick, Dumfries, led the trade at 8,000gns at the sale of Belted Galloways at Wallets Marts, Castle Douglas.

The Perdi and Knighton flocks of Bleu du Maine, Charollais, Rouge and Bluefaced Leicester sheep on behalf of the executors of the late Percy and Diana Tait, Worcester, held at Worcester market saw 132 lots average 1,557.

THE two-day sale of shearling rams at Hawes on behalf of the Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association ‘B’ district peaked at 38,000.

A new breed record and an all-breeds Irish record of €52,000 (47,062) was set at the Simmental premier sale at Roscommon when Clonagh Lucky Explorer sold to the Wood family’s Popes herd, Preston.

Breed records were smashed at the Dalmally Blackface ram sale when a ram lamb from the Dalchirla flock at Muthill, Crieff, sold for 200,000 surpassing the previous top of 160,000, also set by Dalchirla, five years ago.

A question mark hangs over the future of next year’s major agricultural shows as tougher Covid restrictions come into place once again.

The 2020 winners are revealed

The British Farming Awards will take place tonight (October 21) at 7:30pm. For the first time ever the awards will be hosted virtually due to Covid-19 restrictions. 

A top price of 35,000gns and an average of £6,683.85, up £905.87 on the year were the highlights of the sale of Limousin cattle at Carlisle.