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Hawker cattle bolster latest sale offering

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 26 August Numbers reduced substantially this week as agents offered 4500 lambs and sheep. Quality was extremely mixed with...

Drop in freshness for latest lamb offering

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 19 August Numbers reduced marginally as agents offered 6900 lambs and 900 sheep. Quality this week was extremely mixed...

Records fall for heavy lambs

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 12 August Numbers increased marginally as agents offered 8000 lambs and 600 sheep. Quality was fair to good across...

Holding back the sea: How Dutch ingenuity saved the land

From the deadly night of 1953 to the Delta Works programme, the Netherlands has turned reclaimed polders into some of the most productive farmland...

Prices up from previous week at Dublin

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 5 August Lamb numbers increased by 2500 head as agents offered 7000 lambs and 700 sheep. Quality overall was...

More saleyard records set at Dublin

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 15 July Winter supply issues are now affecting numbers as agents offered 5000 lambs and 1500 sheep. While lamb...

New saleyard record as winter issues arise

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 15 July Winter supply issues are now affecting numbers as agents offered 5000 lambs and 1500 sheep. While lamb...

Numbers ease after rough weather

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 8 Numbers eased this week as agents offered 5200 lambs and 1000 sheep, and given the extremely rough...

Weather no deterrent at Livestock Exchange

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 24 Wild weather over much of the supplying areas did not deter vendors as agents offered 18,850 lambs...

Sheepish view of Iceland

This week’s Over the Fence comes directly from Iceland where I have been examining the condition of Icelandic livestock, mainly sheep, which have recently lambed...

Mallala Book Week a fun adventure

Mallala Primary School was alive with costumes of different sizes, shapes and colours on Tuesday last week, embracing this year's theme of ‘Book an...