First-time winner at Skipton s Christmas prime lamb show
John Midgley, left, with his 2020 Skipton Christmas supreme champion prime lambs, joined by buyers Clare and George Cropper, of Cropper Family Butchers & Deli in Accrington CALDERDALE sheep farmer John Midgley won the supreme lowland championship for the first time at Skipton Auction Mart’s 2020 Christmas prime lambs show. Mr Midgley, of Dean House Farm, Ludendenfoot, clinched the prestigious title with his first-prize Continental trimmed trio of home-bred Beltex-cross lambs, by a pedigree Beltex ram, Muirton Carlisle ET, acquired from Aberdeenshire breeder Jimmy Young and used successfully for the past three years on the Upper Calder Valley flock, which comprises some 40 Beltex breeding ewes.