Shows & Sales

Some 500 plus sheep were forward for judging at this year’s Garstang show, with judge Frank Towers, Lancaster, responsible for the final inter-breed judging.

As host to the Galloway National Show, it was a triumphant result for the breed when they took home the inter-breed championship. Katie Fallon reports.

Nick Woodmass on the summer shows ahead.

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.

It was the South Country Cheviot champion from David Douglas and family’s Catslackburn flock, Yarrow, which took the supreme sheep championship at Border Union Show, Kelso, as the event returned to the calendar for the first

John Rossiter on record breaking sales.

It has been a busy summer for Audrey Anderson, who has not only been to show her family’s own Hereford and Charolais cattle, but has also had a high profile judging appointment. Ewan Pate reports.

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.

A Suffolk yearling ewe from Dafydd Jones, Ceredigion was awarded the overall inter-breed title after winning the native and lowland championship.

As cooler temperatures arrived at the showground in Llanelwedd on day three, judge Andrew Cope, of the Huddlesford herd, Staffordshire, tapped out the Holstein champion, Erie W Brook Lustre, in the supreme dairy cow champions