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View from the rostrum: Strong start for sheep sales

Stephen Dodsworth on worries ahead

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Stephen Dodsworth.

This year has started strongly for us at Darlington in the sheep rostrum, numbers of both prime and store hoggs are exceeding last year's levels despite what is surely a lack of sheep on the ground...

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