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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.

WHEN Lance Charity took on the tenancy of a county council arable farm, he knew he would have to take every opportunity to maximise income from it.

POST mortem reports consistently show that the increase in sudden deaths in lambs in the autumn is down to pasteurellosis.

THE three days of Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association ‘C’ District ram sales at Kirkby Stephen topped at 60,000 for Mark Nelson from the Bull and Cave flock, Clapham.

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 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.

A new world record price of 20,000 for a working sheep dog was set at Skipton’s online sale, along with new records of 4,200 for a sheep dog under ten months old and 3,700 for a sheep dog pup.

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