The Fantastic Fifty Sale of Southdown females from the Brant and Chaileybrook flocks of Sid Cook and Jonathan Long respectively took place on 25th November 2017.
The Royal Welsh Winter Fair saw an encouraging number of Southdowns in the line-up across all eligible classes. In both live and dead classes Southdowns swept up the first place rosettes.
The 2017 Southdown Sheep Society Field Day and Annual General Meeting took place on October 7th at Neuaddlwyd Uchaf, Ciliau Aeron, Lampeter, Ceridigeon, SA48 7RE, by kind invitation of Dyland and Delyth Williams and family.
The final official Southdown Sheep Society Show & Sale of the year took place at Melton Mowbray Market as part of the Traditional Native Breeds Show & Sale on September 8th -9th.
The Southdown Sheep Society held their Premier Sale at Worcester Market on Saturday 12th August with females proving to be the order of the day with breed enthusiasts witnessing a new female record set with a shearling ewe from the Goodwood Estate Co Ltd flock selling for 1500gns.
The 2017 Southdown Sheep Society National Show took place at the Suffolk Show and attracted an impressive number of entries which totalled almost one hundred. Breeders travelled from East
Long-standing Southdown Sheep Society member David Burden has been awarded the British Empire Medal in recognition of many years of voluntary service to the local farming community
Direct sales offer commercial lamb producers an important price premium and the higher the killing out percentage the more profit a farmer will make from a single carcass.
It takes a hardy ewe to produce good quality lamb in the Scottish uplands but one farmer stumbled on what proved to be a winning combination when he was given his first Southdown tup.