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

IN the sheep rings the inter-breed judge, Bruce Goldie, Mouswald, had an impressive line-up of 46 breeds to chose from.

While visitors from all over the world will being heading to the Great Yorkshire Show for the first time as part of the World Charolais Congress, for one local herd it has been a major fixture on the calendar for many years.

Charollais trade hit a high of 15,000gns at the breed’s premier sale at Worcester for ram lamb from Dai and Paul Curran’s Wernfawr flock, Talgarth, Brecon.