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Sedgemoor Market celebrates four years of success
Auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt are celebrating the anniversary of four years of business at Sedgemoor Auction Centre. The auction centre opened in January 2008, and since then throughput of livestock has increased by 30% from 278,000 head in 2008 up to 359,000 in...
Bovine TB: Baaaaa - more sheep
Hard on the heels of our<a href=http://bovinetb.blogspot.com/2010/03/tb-transmission-why-we-bother.html target=”_blank”>posting below,</a>comes the story this week of a flock of Lleyn sheep, with several 'bovine' TB casualties.<br /><blockquote>Vets were alerted by chronic weight loss in 20 of 220
AllAboutFeed - Weblog: SPACE: French animal production, trends and 2010 forecasts
The annual French agricultural show SPACE is coming up in September. This is why AllAboutFeed zooms in on the situation in France. Except for sheep, production prices in France for all animals have decreased in 2009. On average, agricultural incomes dropped by 30.4% for French professional farms,
Positive outlook for world meat prices
Global beef and sheep prices are likely to remain firm in 2012 as demand from emerging economies grows against a backdrop of generally tight supplies, according to AHDB
PHOTO: A hatrick of healthy quads
With the spread of Schmallenberg weighing heavy on many sheep farmers' minds, this is a very welcome good news story.Brothers Samuel aged seven (left), and George aged 6 love helping out during lambing, and here they are cuddling one of three sets of healthy quads born on their...
BFL gimmer hoggs hit £800 at Skipton
Gimmer hoggs hit £800 at the annual show and sale of Blue Faced Leicester females at Skipton Auction Mart. Taking the champion and reserve champion title at the show, as well as the two top prices of £800 was father and...
PHOTO: The lamb of love
How appropriate - a lamb born this morning, Valentine's Day, with a heart-shaped marking. Thanks to Jeremy Oatey for sending it to Field Day - the ewe is part of his 650-head flock which has started lambing in the last few...
FIRST OF THE SEASON'S SUCK LAMBS REACH £96.50 AT EXETER
Taking Stock.jpg FIRST OF THE SEASON'S SUCK LAMBS REACH £96.50 AT EXETER By Jeremy Hunt on February 13, 2012 9:38 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks The first "suck" lambs of the season went under the hammer at Exeter Market today and topped at £96.50 for a pen of 54 kg pure-bred Poll Dorsets from
Perth Bull Sale 2012: Limousin sale toppers
A sample of bulls on offer from the Newhouse herd of Messrs R M Adam and Son, Newhouse of Glamis, Forfar, saw the big bids in the Limousin ring with their entry of nine bulls seeing an average of £8,377....
Perth Bull Sales 2012: Limousin and Salers females sale
The Limousin heifers are up first....First up it's the reserve champion Lourie Flora (lot 621) from Mr R Aitken which fails to sell at 1,800gns.Now it's Mr M Burns' Shaws Fifi (lot 622) which goes unsold.Another one from Messrs Burns,...
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