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FOR Middleton-in-Teesdale Auction Mart, September and the autumn season brings with it some of the country’s major Swaledale breeding sheep and tup sales attracted from across County Durham, Cumbria, ...

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A group of pioneering farmers have overcome the inherent challenges of performance recording hill breeds to make significant genetic progress in their Swaledale flocks. The three-year AHDB project has ...

ITV News Science Correspondent Martin Stew visits a farm in Yorkshire where an unusual solution to reducing the UK's carbon emissions is being trialled Around 6% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions ...

Yorkshire farmers are protesting over plans to declare the Eden Valley in Cumbria as the spiritual home of the Swaledale sheep. Swaledale is in the Yorkshire Dales, but a group of farmers and ...

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THE ESSENCE of Mule sheep breeding – the Bluefaced Leicester and the Swaledale – drew a bumper crowd to Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales last weekend for a select sale of females organised by the ...

The trans-Pennine spat we reported last week involving the marts at Hawes and Kirkby Stephen over the true heritage and home of the Swaledale sheep breed provoked a certain sense of indignation in the ...

SWALEDALE sheep have long been prized by farmers across the region for their ability to thrive anywhere - but now they are literally worth their weight in gold. To mark the lunar Year of the Sheep, ...

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