🐑 A Beltex sells for a record-breaking 70,000gns...
The Beltex Premier Sale at Borderway produced a new breed record, with another ram going on to sell for 65,000gns.
For Ep. 3 of Sale Ring Stories, Katie Fallon and Ellie Layton head ringside to speak to auctioneer Grant Anderson, livestock photographer Wayne Hutchinson and breeders Grant Maxwell, Alan Miller and Ross Campbell about the record-breaking trade, the breeding behind the rams and what goes into a sale like this.
🎥 Sale Ring Stories takes you inside some of the UK's biggest livestock sales, meeting the people behind them and capturing the action around the ring.
Watch the full episode: https://t.co/0WIVb4e8q4
WARNING
OF&G have informed us that scammers have accessed the organic certificates of a number of certified farms (not from them) and are using them to advertise organic produce and asking for payment. There’s been a fraudulent advert from us for forage for sale, it’s not genuine
- NEWS - Labours new farming minister faints at sight of meat after feeling unwell while touring cold storage unit
Stephen Morgan felt ill when stepping into a refrigerated room full of beef at a food processing plant in the Lake District
He said he was grateful to the staff and put it down to the temperature change while a local farmer said it was not a great look for the farming minister
What a prat
🚨NEW: A person has died and hundreds of people have been affected by a salmonella outbreak
The UK Health Security Agency said the food poisoning outbreak “may be linked to eggs imported from outside of the UK”
Outshine popsicles have been recalled nationwide due to potential glass contamination.
The affected flavors are strawberry, watermelon, grape, tangerine, and black cherry.
#frankrijk#boer Bij het Centrum voor OPENBARE FINANCIËN ... Nadat de Franse belastingdienst de boer een boete had opgelegd, ging hij die betalen... in natura!
Sewage map vs. hosepipe ban map.
It seems you can either have shit in the water, drought restrictions, or, if you're really lucky, both.
Has there ever been a more pitiful state of affairs?
In the UK unemployed Mohammad finds it difficult keeping his three wives & 11 kids happy.
But he takes advantage of the DWP increased weekly payment for each additional wife in polygamous marriages of £125. That’s an extra £6,500 per year, per wife on top of other benefits.
People keep asking is there a difference between a Belgian Malinois and a German Shepherd.
A German Shepherd will assess the situation, decide whether intervention is necessary, and act accordingly.
A Malinois has already launched himself into the situation, knocked over your drink, gone swimming in a flood, and somehow ended up under a bridge at midnight.
German Shepherds think first.
Malinois wake up every morning and choose chaos.
Drought fact. I’ve discovered that 4.5 litres of cold water comes out of both my bathroom and kitchen taps before hot water arrives. This used to go straight down the plug hole. Now it goes into a bucket for the garden. We waste a lot of water. We need to get more water savvy.
➡️This serial sex predator has changed his name up to 20 times, despite multiple convictions of horrific crimes against women and girls over decades.
Loopholes will ALWAYS be exploited by bad people. It is the government’s job to identify them and close them.
And they know about them - not least because there are a plethora of cases just like this one. Yet still, they do nothing.
Why? Because apparently the "human rights" of vile sex predators to continue to lie, abuse, attack and evade scrutiny matter more than public safety.
⛔️What exactly is it going to take to close this loophole?