Beltex peaks at £3,200 for shearling

The Beltex breed peaked at £3,200 for a shearling ram from the Buckle family, Buckles Farm, Barras, Kirkby.

He is by the home-bred sire, Buckles Absolute, and out of a ewe by Broxty Supreme. Buyer was JM Hall, Scosthrop Farm, Skipton.

Dutch Texels also sold to £3,200, for one from P Guiry and Son, Glanton Town Farm, Alnwick, to Messrs Jardine, Upper Hardland.

At £3,200 P Guiry & Son, Glanton Town Farm, Alnwick, sold a shearling to Messrs Jardine, Upper Hardland; and R& K Buckle, Buckies Farm, Kirkby Stephen sold to Scosthrop Farm, Skipton.

Stuart Wood, Woolhillock, Skene, sold one at £2,800 to Michael Owens, Glantrie, South Wales.

A Texel lamb from Robbie Wilson, North Dorlaithers, Turriff, sold for £4,000. Below: Border Union Agricultural Society secretary Ron Wilson rings the bell to get the Kelso Ram Sales under way.