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Beef cattle performance is closely monitored by the Turley family of Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, where the suckler herd policy is shaped by bovine TB constraints and a low-cost approach

A new UK and European record for an Aberdeen-Angus of 73,500gns was set at the fifth annual Rawburn production sale which took place online

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Lockerbie, Gisburn, Thame, Penrith, Borderway, Dolgellau

Crowds returned to United Auctions for the first of the February Stirling Bull Sales, where records were broken across breeds

JOHN Elliot, who runs the Rawburn pedigree Aberdeen-Angus herd, along with his family, in the Scottish Borders, explained how the main aim of their business was to breed fuel-efficient profitable cattle

The use of Aberdeen-Angus as a terminal sire is delivering easier-fleshing cattle, better carcases, and award-winning beef for a Powys farming family

The Chapelton herd is synonymous with quality, well-bred native cattle as a result of the careful stockmanship of the Biggar family

A regenerative approach to pork and beef production has seen Oxfordshire brothers Nick and Jon Francis secure lucrative markets for their products

Alastair Trickett is transitioning his tenanted West Yorkshire arable unit to mixed enterprise farming, with sheep and beef grazing in rotation with the crops

A Beltex ewe reigned supreme in the sheep inter-breed judging as entries topped over 700 head, the largest seen at Garstang Show for a number of years