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After an eventful week at the Highland Show, a well-deserved family holiday before the harvest season was just what we needed. The show was a…

Efficiency in sheep farming is determined by productivity and profitability and by switching to composite breeds, SRUCs Barony campus based in…

For the safety of workers and road users, the A702 will be closed in both directions while work takes place, with signed diversion routes in place…

BORDERS motorists are being warned about roadworks on a major route over a three-week period. Officials say work on the A702 between Melbourne Crossroads and Easter Howgate, in neighbouring Midlothian, will begin next Monday (April 12), with all work expected to be completed by May 1. The work will be carried out by BEAR Scotland, with different parts of the A702 closed overnight between 7.30pm and 6am.  READ MORE: Tommy Deans, BEAR Scotland’s south east network manager, said: “The...

Dumfries Mart conducted its annual Christmas Sale of Pigs earlier this month. This was the first anniversary of the successful re-commencement of monthly pig sales at the mart and 103 were sold. A small herd dispersal from Mark Day, Carlcroft, Harbottle, Northumberland produced the day`s top price, £300 for a four year old purebred British Saddleback sow, in-pig to the stock boar. She was purchased by M.J. & J.A. Dobson, Hillhead, Auldgirth, Dumfries. Others breeding pigs sold to £1...