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On the next episode of Sale Ring Stories, Farmers Guardian's new video series, Livestock Specialists, Katie Fallon and Ellie Layton visit Borderway Mart for one of the earliest sales to kick off the breeding season.

A new breed record of 70,000gns was set at the Farmers Guardian supported Beltex Premier show and sale at Carlisle.

The yearling ewe from John and Phillipa Owens' Woodhouse 2 flock, Hereford, also claimed the breed championship at the Kerry Hill National Show, hosted at the same event

Lagavaich Rosie claimed the breed title, before going on to lift the reserve overall supreme in the beef inter-breed

Simon Draper, senior auctioneer at Thame Auction Mart reflects on the annual Thame Summer Sheep Fair and a strong trade for all types of sheep over the past few months

Watch along as we follow the biggest sheep sales at auction marts around the country

Farmers Guardian head of livestock visited Thame Sheep Fair last week - catch up on trade

Catch up with reports from recent livestock markets including Junction 36, Worcester, Gisburn, Market Drayton, Skipton and Melton Mowbray

At the two-day Thame Summer Sheep Fair the 14,674 head of sheep forward averaged £220/head with a 95.3% clearance rate and a turnover of £3.3 million