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The Boden family, Stockport, took the top call of 20,000gns at the Christmas Stars sale of Texel females at Carlisle.

This year AgriScot took its show and seminar offerings online and welcomed hundreds of visitors through its virtual doors. Hannah Noble reports.

It was a different format this year for the LiveScot event held at Lanark market with no spectators and animals judged in the pens, but there was a good turnout of livestock and strong demand from buyers.

Rural Affairs minister Lesley Griffiths has announced 200,000 of support for the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society for 2020-21

THE Three Nations sale of Suffolk females at Carlisle topped at 15,000gns for a shearling gimmer by Malinhead Maverick out of a Mountford Mustang sired ewe from Dennis Taylor’s Ballycannon flock, Colraine, Northern Ireland.

SARKLEY Paragon, a May 2019-born Limousin bull by Ampertaine Elgin out of Sarkley Irondelle, led the trade at 10,000gns at the North West Midlands and North Wales Club sale at Welshpool.

THE top price of day of 6,000gns at the British Charolais Cattle Society sale at Welshpool went to David Thornley, Hartshorne, Derbyshire, with Dooley Pringo.

THE timed online auction of working sheepdogs hosted by Farmers Marts, Dolgellau, peaked at 13,200 with eight lots selling for more than 7,000.

The auction sale record for a Charollais ewe was broken twice at the production sale from the Tullyear flock of Drew and Stephen Cowan, held at Beattie Livestock Yard, Omagh, Northern Ireland.

In the latest of feature of our series supported by the Livestock Auctioneers Association and Shearwell Data, we look at the importance of the Scottish island’s auction marts.