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Following a fantastic entry into the Farmers Guardian summer shows competition the overall winner has now been chosen.

A new breed record of 18,000gns was set for a Herdwick ram at the Keswick show and sale on behalf of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association at Cockermouth.

TWO lambs selling for 30,000 apiece and ram lambs averaging 2,206, a 766 increase on the year, were the highlights of the Bluefaced Leicester sale at Hawes.

An independent report commissioned by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Livestock has concluded new methods of mitigating carbon emissions from livestock production must be found to reach net zero targets by 2050.

Farming economics, it is sometimes argued, work in a countercyclical fashion to the wider economy. And if there was one year to seemingly prove that it would be 2020.

Prices for store lambs and breeding ewes are flying at UK marts, with producers confident in the future, despite storm clouds gathering on the horizon

Alastair Sneddon on work through Covid-19.

The LAMMA Show, which was due to take place on January 12-13, 2021 at Birmingham’s NEC, will now take place on May 25-26, 2021.

In the latest of our series supported by the Livestock Auctioneers Association and Shearwell Data, we visit the new Darlington Farmer Auction Mart.

A NEW Northern Ireland record of 23,000gns for a Bluefaced Leicester ram lamb was set at Ballymena.