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Trade was booming at the second round of the February Stirling Bull Sales, with Simmentals selling to 30,000gns twice

Entries from the Finlay family’s Blackcraig herd from Corsock headed up both the male and female sections of the Galloway Cattle Society’s show and sale at Castle Douglas

There were celebrations for Bruce Goldie and family as they secured another Limousin championship at Borderway and their supreme champion and reserve bulls sold for the top two prices of 60,000gns and 55,000gns

The Farmers Guardian supported show and sale of show potential cattle at Brecon had clearance rate of 95% with heifers averaging £3,013.89 while the steer trade was up £1,028.86 on the year to average £3,711.36.

A second-prize bull set a new UK breed record at the Highland Cattle Society’s spring show and sale at Oban when Iain MacKay and Claire Simonetta’s Jock of Cnoc Na Sith went under the hammer at 34,000gns

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Lockerbie, Gisburn, Thame, Penrith, Borderway, Dolgellau

Averages improved in all sections at the Luing Cattle Society’s Premier sale at Castle Douglas where heifers met a 100% clearance and all bar one bull sold to new homes with a top of 25,000gns

Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions company manager Peter Huntley discusses a strong year’s trade

Reggie Deakin, 21, is an assistant farm manager at Wigborough Wick 51AVÊÓƵin St Osyth, Essex

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Junction 36, Penrith, Skipton, Darlington, Market Drayton and Gisburn