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ROYAL HIGHLAND SHOW: Aiming for three Charollais titles in a row

The last two years at the Royal Highland will be hard to beat for Ben Radley, having won the Charollais championship and the inter-breed sheep award in 2022, followed by the breed, reserve inter-breed and overall pairs titles in 2023. Lynsey Clark reports

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Ben Radley established his flock of Charollais in 2005.
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Ben Radley established his flock of Charollais in 2005.

Despite the fact he did not grow up around sheep, Ben Radley has been farming mad his whole life and first showed at the Royal Highland in 2007, aged 12. That was after establishing his own flock of...

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