Thursday 6th February 2025: 320 beef cattle in Ballymena on Thursday resulted in another great trade with another record price per head this week of £3159 for a Charolais bullock 880kg at 359p.

The mart trade for lambs took a lift this week on the back of increased factory quotes. Mart managers reported increased ...

Monday 10th February saw a super entry of 150 cattle presented for sale which resulted in an absolute flying trade for all ...

A hill flock has survived a major enterprise restructure on an Exmoor farm, which saw cow numbers increased at the expense of ...

Skipton Auction Mart’s fortnightly midweek catalogue sale of store lambs and breeding sheep remained strong with 1211 head ...

There was a slightly smaller entry of just over 350 sheep in Roscommon Livestock Mart this week for its weekly sheep sale.

Niamh Monahan and her father Eamonn have had four attacks on their sheep in the last five years, with the most recent attack resulting in 25% of their herd being “wiped out”. In the attack this month, ...

The sale’s top gross of £226 per head fell to 44kg Beltex ... An entry of just over 300 cast sheep saw cull ewes peak at £234.50 for a Texel from Owain Chapman, Skyreholme, pure ewes with size selling ...

Long keep lambs were still in excess of £100 per head which is a very strong trade. “The ewe trade has been very strong with top Texel ewes up to £300 each.” Andrew Hunter Blair, sheep auctioneer at ...

The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the US. In Milam County, outside Austin, SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar ...

If you want to make someone wild about you, you have to start by getting into their head. Most of the time, people like someone who keeps them guessing, and makes them work for things ...

Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have ... their only blindspot is directly behind their head. Furthermore, the narrower the pupils in relation to the horizon ...