Shows & Sales

Joe Bowman, livestock auctioneer at Harrison and Hetherington, provides an update on current trade and looks back at record turnovers and strong tup trade

In just over a week the Borderway Agri Expo will return to Carlisle on Friday, 30 October, and will see some new additions to the timetable

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Middleton, Lanark, Gisburn, Llanrwst, Leek, Clitheroe, Hereford and Borderway

United Auctions sold 29 Aberdeen-Angus bulls through the ring to average £7,872, up £216/head on the year

The 71 Simmental bulls which went under the hammer achieved an average of £11,025, down £45 on the year

Buyers and sellers returned ringside for the October Stirling Bull Sales event, with a selective trade met across the breeds

'Rusty', a steel bull created by a farmer after a heart condition forced him to step back from day-to-day farming, has sold for an impressive 27,000gns at Stirling

Averaging £4,903, the 164 in-calf heifers peaked at £12,000 at the Jalex Select autumn sale held on behalf of James Alexander, on-farm at Randalstown, Northern Ireland, but it was a pedigree Limousin bull that topped the entry at £12,500

A new breed record of £34,000 was set at the sale of South Country Cheviots at Lockerbie when the champion from the Warden family’s Skelfhill flock, Hawick, hit that price as a total of 10 rams sold for five-figure prices

A quality line-up of almost 300 cattle made for some stiff competition at this year's Dairy Show in Shepton Mallet.