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Pit your skills against a professional livestock judge and be in with the chance of winning 250 plus a 250 ram voucher.

Pit your skills against a professional livestock judge and be in with the chance of winning £250 plus a £250 ram voucher.

Pit your skills against a professional livestock judge and be in with the chance of winning £250 plus a £250 ram voucher.

A clip of Jeremy Clarkson submitting his entry for the British Farming Awards (BFAs) has caused a social media storm, with more than 650,000 people watching the two minute spoof.

The non-MV accredited sheep section took place on Tuesday when inter-breed judge, Jim Robertson, Langholm, awarded the supreme title to the Bluefaced Leicester crossing type champion.

It was a victory for team Moralee at the end of a very different first day of this year’s Royal Highland proceedings.

British Blonde bulls sold to a high of 12,000gns at Carlisle for Hallfield Plato, a November 2019-born son of Broccagh Kingfisher out of Hallfield Mia from P. Weightman and Sons, Peterlee. It sold to Messrs Atkinson, Ulversto

The switch from selling sheepdogs in the field at live auction to timed auctions, therefore, opening sales up to a wider audience, is thought to be a key factor in the boom in prices over the last year or so.

The British Farming Awards are back for 2021.

With Leaf’s Open 51AVÊÓƵSunday event set to go ahead face-to-face when lockdown eases, as well as online, Farmers Guardian caught up with one farming family gearing up to welcome members of the public again this year.