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This year, the Welsh Dairy Show held at Carmarthen Showground moved the calf show to coincide with the main classes, which resulted in a bustling event.

A round up of this weeks auction mart sales including reports from Exeter, Bishops Castle, Longtown and Shrewsbury

SWALEDALE rams continued to sell well at Hawes where shearling rams met a 93% clearance rate with 16 at £10,000 or above and a top of £60,000

With buyers in attendance from all across the UK, Belted Galloways were in demand at Castle Douglas as five lots broke the five-figure barrier and a new female record was set

A round up of this week’s auction mart sales, including reports from Kirkby Stephen, Sedgemoor, Ruswarp, Dalmally, Darlington and Lanark

Victory by name and victory by nature as Goldies Victory claimed the intermediate and overall championship before selling for the top price of 70,000gns at the British Limousin Cattle Society sale at Borderway

Charolais bulls topped at 18,000gns three times with the 86 bulls averaging £9,039.77 up £1,062 on the year with a 95% clearance

Selling for a breed record for the October sale of 36,000gns was the overall and junior champion, Goldies Volvo from Bruce Goldie, Mouswald

David and Tom Bradley Farmer led both male and female Beef Shorthorn trade

Simmental bulls were a flying trade topping at 30,000gns with another record average of £11,070, up £3,636 on last year for 12 more bulls sold and with a with a clearance rate of 80%