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The Aberdeenshire-based Seed family use performance recording to back up visual appraisal in order to best meet the demands of their pedigree breeding stock customers

A new crossing-type Bluefaced Leicester female record was set at the Hawes Honeys sale when a gimmer hogg from Messrs Lord's Hewgill flock was knocked down for £22,000

Catch up with reports from recent livestock auctions including Gisburn, Leyburn, Hexham and J36

NO fewer than five rams sold for five-figure price tags at the Bluefaced Leicester sale at Carlisle, where a crossing ram from the Wight family's Midlock flock topped at £20,000

A top price of £32,000 for a Texel and a record average £1,427.02, up £97.84 on the year for the 3,411 rams sold with a clearance rate of 87.10% were highlights of Kelso ram sales

In what is thought to be the first time at the show, it was the commercial champions which claimed the sheep supreme

Bluefaced Leicesters, Rough Fells and other pedigree and commercial females went under the hammer

Catch up with what's been happening in the sale rings around the country this week

Trade has been strong in the auction marts in both pedigree and commercial sectors

It was the overall champion, a ewe lamb from Messrs Lord's Hewgill flock, North Stainmore, which led the trade at 9,000gns at the Classy Ladies sale of crossing type Bluefaced Leicester females at Carlisle