Hackney Xcel News Today

THE pedigree Texel flock from Procters Farm took the three leading prices at Skipton Auction Mart’s first pedigree fixture of 2021, the 28th annual open winter sale of Texel females for members of Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders. With planned show classes cancelled, Jeff Aiken, flock manager at Procters Farm, based at Moss House Farm, Wennington, close to the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, hit the headlines when stepping up with a high price in-lamb shearling ewe hat-trick, leading the w...

AN excellent start to the pedigree year at Skipton was complemented by a brand-new fixture. The inaugural ‘Blue Diamonds’ winter sale of 15 pedigree in-lamb Blue Texel females which had created keen pre-sale interest and selling prices certainly backed up this optimism. Mother and daughter, Elaine and Issy Hartley, from the Pendle flock in Roughlee, Nelson, were the headline performers with a brace of February-born ewe lambs that both made four figure prices. First up and selling at...