Trade for crossing-type Bluefaced Leicesters at the breed sale at Carlisle was brisk throughout, with prices peaking at £14,000 for a March-born lamb from the Cretlevane flock of father-and-daughter ...

Scottish farmers are turning increasingly to field beans as they search for profitable alternatives to spring barley, with the latest June Agricultural Census showing the crop continuing to gain ...

(+£280.25); 270 shearlings, £1674.26 (+£173.32); 398 head, £1810.02 (+£211.24 for 19 more sold). A TWO-SHEAR South Country Cheviot ram from the Warden family, Skelfhill, Hawick, set a new high for the ...

West Fortune Farm, run by Haig Hamilton senior and junior at Drem near North Berwick, is a finalist for Arable Farm of the Year at the Scottish Agriculture Awards. The 810ha business grows potatoes, ...

Ark Vet Centre has been shortlisted for Animal Health Provider of the Year at the Scottish Agriculture Awards, recognising its work supporting dairy, beef and sheep farmers across south-west Scotland.

Averages: eight three-year-old heifers, £5053.21 (-£945.78); 12 two-year-old heifers, £3491.25 (-£2007.43); 17 yearling heifers (£2385.71 (-£239.29); 17 heifer calves, £3304.00 (+£1590.10).

Davidsons Farm & Country has been shortlisted for Animal Health Provider of the Year at the Scottish Agriculture Awards, recognising decades of experience supplying farmers with animal health products ...

Braeside of Lindores in Fife has developed from a working farm into a rural tourism destination, with four luxury lodges, an equestrian training centre, event spaces and farm experiences. Anna and ...

Balmaud Distillery at Yonderton Farm has diversified from growing barley for the whisky industry to producing its own Highland single-estate Scotch whisky and Scottish dry gin. Managing director ...

Mosston Muir Ebony W402, a six-year-old Aberdeen Angus cow and her bull calf topped A Rennie's herd dispersal at Carlisle, selling for the top price of 4700gns.

Blackface shearling rams met a keen demand at the breed’s annual Stirling sale, with 10 lots hitting five figures, to a top of £25,000, ensuring an average increase of £231 per head on the year, for ...

Whey protein prices soar in Europe as demand from sports nutrition, yoghurt, infant formula and GLP-1 users drives a squeeze in the dairy ingredients market.