Shows & Sales

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.

Catch up with all the news from around the marts this week including sales at Lairg, Kirkby Stephen, Castle Douglas, Leyburn, Skipton and more

The Bluefaced Leicester Sheep Breeders Association show and sale at Hawes drew visitors from all parts of the country who witnessed a new breed record of £88,000 set

There was a strong entry of cattle North East Live with heifers taking all the top tickets