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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.

Livestock breeders have had to be creative to market their animals this year as the Covid-19 lockdown led to the cancellation of many sales and the entire summer showing season.

While Covid-19 has decimated this year’s summer shows calendar, it also looks set to have an impact on next year’s events with two show society’s announcing this week that their 2021 fixtures will not take place.