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Ahead of the National Beef Association's Beef Expo on May 30, we go behind the farm gate with commercial cattle judge Tracey Jones and her family

Striving to continue to add value to their mixed livestock enterprise, Cumbrian farmers Will and Gillian Sedgley value the Beltex for prime lamb production

Tom Ashton was a founder member of both the British Blue Cattle Society and the Beltex Sheep Society

A Beltex ewe hogg headed up Stuart Wood’s online sale of pedigree female sheep when Woodies Little Bo Peep was knocked down for £5,900

The Beltex Sheep Society’s Premier Sale, supported by Farmers Guardian, once again topped at 60,000gns, with ram lambs leading the trade and twice breaking the Beltex lamb breed record

A Beltex ewe reigned supreme in the sheep inter-breed judging as entries topped over 700 head, the largest seen at Garstang Show for a number of years

This year’s Dumfries Show saw the beef inter-breed champion crowned supreme in the show’s first ever champion of champions competition

The inaugural NSA Wales and Border Early ram sale to be held at Brecon market following a move from the Royal Welsh showground proved popular, with Texels topping at 2,000gns twice and a record clearance of 88%. Ellie Layton reports.

A Shropshire-based breeder started his journey with the Beltex breed by using it for commercial purposes, but over recent years has developed his stock into a successful pedigree flock. Ellie Layton reports.