Beef prices continue to rise sharply, while sheep prices remain steady in the prime ring. What’s driving the market trends for both?

AN ‘overall correct sheep’ from Kinawley took the top honours at the prestigious Irish Beltex Sheep Breeders Club’s In-lamb Show and Export Sale held at Dungannon Farmers’ Mart. Kinawley farmer ...

Skipton Auction Mart’s fortnightly midweek catalogue sale of store lambs and breeding sheep remained strong with 1211 head ...

Matt's Jewels ET, a shearling ewe from Matthew Burleigh’s Matt’s Flock, Kinawley shone the brightest at this year’s Irish Beltex Sheep Breeders Club’s In-lamb Show and Export Sale held at Dungannon ...

Averages: overall - £116.61; Beltex - £136.03; Suffolk- £132.42; Texel - £124.56; Charollais - £122.11; Dutch Spotted - £131; Cheviot £113.98, Masham £104, Mule £110.48, Swaledale £80.24, Dalesbred ...

11 feeding ewes and 62 breeding sheep. The sale, on Wednesday, January 29, saw a very mixed show of hoggs forward with smart Beltex x hoggs selling to a top of £156 from P Fawcett, Eldroth, with a pen ...

CCM SKIPTON'S first midweek Wednesday sheep sale yesterday of 2025 attracted 1,643 store lambs of mixed quality ... the overall selling average coming out at £116.61 per head. Top price of £172 fell ...

A mother and daughter are transformed by a sojourn in western Scotland. At four in the morning, far from civilization on an island in the Inner Hebrides, I woke to the drumming of rain on the canvas ...

Mr. Sidebottom had no choice but to shoot dead the Labrador as it continued its assault on the Beltex-cross sheep despite his attempts to intervene. This incident followed the loss of another 20 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Thousands of sheep graze across rural Texas plains to maintain vegetation at one of the country’s largest ...

Solar shepherds, who manage sheep grazing under solar panels, are part of a growing movement that combines agriculture and renewable energy — and offers high incomes in the process. My recent ...