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Skipton Auction Mart’s 2023 pedigree beef season opened with the British Blue fixture

A MUCH-increased entry of 551 cattle – up some 250 head on the previous fortnight – packed the pens at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest midweek…

WHILE the absence of the usual show classes prevented Northern Ireland’s Matthew Burleigh from picking up an unprecedented fourth consecutive title at The Northern Beltex Society’s ninth annual winter sale of pedigree in-lamb females at Skipton Auction Mart he did have the satisfaction of claiming the four leading prices. (Sat, Dec 12) Making his annual foray across the Irish Sea, this year with a quintet of shearling ewes, Mr Burleigh, who runs the Matt’s pedigree flock at Shanra, ne...