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Kim by D Jenkins sold for a whopping £27,100 (€30,934). A new world record was set at an online auction held by Farmers Marts Dolgellau last week, when an 11 month-old Welsh-bred sheepdog, Kim, sold for a mammoth £27,100 (€30,934). The price for Kim, including buyer’s premium, totalled £28,466 (€32,491). Sheepdog Kim was bred and trained by Dewi Jenkins and is from Caefelin Clem, sired by Graylees Dollar and is described as a smart red-and-white pricked-ear dog. It is said her new owners, E Vaughan of Partridge Nest Farm in Newcastle, Staffordshire, will be very pleased with her. Kim by D Jenkins sold for a whopping £27,100 (€30,934). ....
Twenty-year-old Galway green cert student Jackie Minogue got more than she bargained for when she embarked on her four-month work placement to New Zealand last January. Hailing from a beef and sheep farm in Mountbellew, Co Galway, Jackie originally planned on going to work in New Zealand for four months and return to sit her green cert exams in Mountbellew Agricultural College in May. Like everything else, COVID-19 put her plans out the window, which resulted in Jackie having to stay in New Zealand and sit her exams virtually. Completing the green cert in Mountbellew Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal a couple of weeks ago, she tells us all about her experience in the Kiwi country to date. ....
SHARING OPTIONS: A Charolais bull calf from a first-cross Limousine cow delivered by Tullamore farm manager Shaun Diver in 2020. \ Philip Doyle
Cheviot dispersal sale in Tullow Mart On Tuesday afternoon Carlow sheep farmer Dylan Leighbourne sold his flock of prize-winning Cheviot ewes in Tullow Mart. He speaks to Katriona Kinsella about the sale and the reason behind the dispersal. Tullamore Farm calving update Adam Woods catches up with Shaun Diver on Tullamore Farm to talk about preparing for calving and how he is going to manage a busy three months ahead. Auctioneer David Quinn on sheep, beef and land prices ....