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Rising costs and diminishing subsidies have made many upland farms review output and systems. Numerous units have switched to a Cheviot sire for this reason, either to breed replacements or as a ...

Lambs at Newton Stewart yesterday averaged 297p/kg or £131/head and sold to £171/head for Texels from Viewhills or 314p/kg for the same breed from Blairshinnoch. Cast sheep peaked at £168 for a Texel ...

CHEVIOT – The city of Cheviot is celebrating its 200-year anniversary in a very unique way – a sheep decorating contest. Cheviot has sold over 220 concrete sheep for the bicentennial, said Kathy Goedl ...

North Canterbury brothers Ben (left) and Hugh Dampier-Crossley gallop across the Mongolian steppes while competing in the Mongol derby 1000km long race. Photo / Supplied Losing his mount in the middle ...

CHEVIOT – Concrete sheep will soon be adorning the streets in Cheviot. The Bicentennial Committee has begun selling the sheep as part of the city’s 200th anniversary next year. “We want to drive along ...

A year on from securing a farm business tenancy in Yorkshire, young farmer Robert McAneney has tripled ewe numbers and switched from indoor lambing to an outdoor system. Mr McAneney was 23 when in ...

Reporter David Medcalf climbed up into the hills to visit sheep farmer Philip Maguire, who introduced him to the Wicklow Cheviot breed – an animal ideally suited to the windy upland grazing available ...