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View from the rostrum: Rising demand for sucklers

Auctioneer Ted Ogden gives a sales overview

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In upland areas, over the past few years, there has been a reduction in the number of beef suckler cows on hill farms producing suckled calves. Therefore it has been warming this spring to see good...

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