FUW leader welcomes £3.2m boost for Welsh red meat
A PROJECT worth well over £3 million to promote Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef in four European countries over the next three years was described by FUW president as a major boost for Welsh...
Monthly Archive: December 2014
Media helps bridge town and farm gap
BBC’s Lambing Live programme helped show the tremendous effort that goes into producing food while also bringing hard working farmers closer to the media, public and consumers. That was the message from the show’s...
Choosing right time to go to market
THE sheep market has bounced back from a low point in late September but farmers with lambs still to sell should only market them when they are at the correct level of finish, HCC’s...
Welsh Blacks’ first sale at new Monmouthshire centre
THE first sale at the new Monmouthshire Livestock Centre near Raglan for pedigree Welsh Black cattle took place on Friday November 14 with an entry of nearly 40 females. The show was judged by...
Garyvaughan bull leads Brecon trade at 8,200gns
THE 8,200gns pre-sale champion Garyvaughan Ifeild led a solid commercial trade for the British Limousin Cattle Society Sale at Brecon Market on November 8. A Plumtree Deus son out of the homebred Garyvaughan Elfie,...
Brisk trade to 6,500gns for Welshpool Charolais
CHAROLAIS bulls met a brisk demand selling to a top of 6,500gns in Welshpool on November 6 at the breed society’s official sale. Topping the trade was reserve champion Trefaldwyn Ivanhoe TI +57, SRI...
Deals struck in and out of the ring at Dolgellau sale
WITH an entry of 23 Welsh Black animals, comprising 22 females and one bull, the autumn sale at Dolgellau was reasonably well attended. At the pre-sale show the judges were father and son D...
Welsh buyer pays 4,000gns for sheepdog at Skipton
WELL-KNOWN Welsh handler and triallist Nigel Watkins paid 4,000gns (£4,200) for a 15-month-old black and white bitch at the recent Skipton Auction Mart’s autumn sale of working sheep dogs. Mr Watkins, of Panthowel Lodge,...
Judge buys Royal Welsh champion privately
JUNIOR male champion Limousin at this year’s Royal Welsh Show Dyfri Idris has been sold by his breeders D G & M J Edwards & Son of Home Farm, Cilycwm, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, in a...
Swift Welsh Black trade at Autumn sale
THERE was good and swift trade at the autumn Welsh Blacks pedigree prize store sale in Dolgellau on November 7. Top price for a heifer, weighing 570kg, went to Trefor Jones, Cwmcae Herd, Bow...
