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A record average of 4,831.02 was set at Scottish National Texel sale at Lanark which peaked at 160,000gns with three sales of 100,000gns or more and an 83 per cent clearance rate.

While arable might be the main focus on Sunderlandwick Estate, East Yorkshire, cattle play an important role in the enterprise.

A donated Beltex cross shearling has helped raise thousands of pounds for charity at Rugby ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Mart.

AT Thame Summer Sheep 16,669 breeding and store sheep went under the hammer along with 205 rams with the sale grossing just over 2.5million.

The national show and sale of pedigree Suffolks at Shrewsbury topped at 23,000gns for a Forkins McCoy sired ram lamb from Arnold Oare’s Flintshire based Groes flock.

The Scottish Area show and sale of pedigree Suffolks at Lanark saw the 173 rams lambs sold average 3,370 with an 82 per cent clearance rate and 35 per cent of ram lambs going to commercial buyers.

THE supreme pig championship went to Stuart Roberts and Jodie Fairclough, Bedale, with their July 2021-born Hampshire boar, Raisinhall First Turn 2.

IT was the Holstein champion, Enchanted Beemer Abbiene which was awarded the dairy inter-breed supreme award.

Keeping pigs for the whole of their lives from birth to finishing is key for North Farm Livestock’s outdoor pig enterprise in Norfolk.