Tuesday’s sheep sale sold to a sharper trade at Saintfield Mart. Hoggets sold to £187. Ewes sold to £245. Hoggets - ...

A SHEEP in North Cumbria has defied the one-in-a-million odds by giving birth to five healthy lambs! The quintuplets were born to a Texel ewe on the Benson family farm at Biglands, Wigton, last week.

CCM Skipton’s latest fortnightly Wednesday sale of store lambs and breeding sheep saw a turnout nigh on 800 head, with 724 lambs ...

Dingwall and Highland Marts sold 1201 sheep where 532 hoggs averaged 327.6p per kg having sold to 359p for a pair of 44kg Beltex crosses from Dunain Mains, Inverness, or £179 for a pair of 62kg Texel ...

Police in Powys have launched an appeal for information over the theft of more than 30 sheep from the Kerry Ridgeway.

A good turnout of sheep on Wednesday night saw fat hoggets sell to a top price of £171 and fat ewes to £210 in a super trade.

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

Applying fertiliser enriched with sulphur can improve grass yields, but a project in Wales has demonstrated why farmers should monitor impacts on their ...

Police have been told not to use terms such as ‘black sheep’ and ‘blacklisted’ in case it causes offence. Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire constabularies have ...

Mr Akinbusoye, head of the watchdog until May 2024, questioned why the term “whitewashing” was not singled out for criticism but the terms “blacklisted”, “black sheep” and “black ...

“The ewe trade has been very strong with top Texel ewes up to £300 each.” Andrew Hunter Blair, sheep auctioneer at Craig Wilson was selling prime lambs at Newton Stewart. He said: “The trade was back ...

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 ...