The event will be held on Thursday, January 21, 5pm to 6pm. It will be the first of a series of online events hosted by the Armstrong Watson Agri Team. Each one will be hosted by Andrew Robinson, head of agriculture at Armstrong Watson and will feature a different guest from the farming community. To RSVP please visit https://bit.ly/Sally-Urwin Armstrong Watson has recently launched a new branding initiative with Mitchell’s Auction Mart, which is part of a wider ‘Flying the Flag for British Farming’ campaign by the company, which also includes billboard advertising located en-route to H&H Rosehill Mart, along Warwick Road in Carlisle.
THE inaugural Cumbria Farmer Awards will be judged by a panel of respected experts from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Headed by Andrew Robinson, partner and head of agriculture and farming at Carlisle-based business advisers and accountants Armstrong Watson, our headline sponsors, who are also sponsoring a further category, the Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the drinks reception. Andrew will be partnered in the search to find farming’s unsung heroes, by Alistair Mackintosh, west Cumbrian beef and sheep farmer and chairman of Red Tractor Assurance, as well as the National Farmers Union Cumbrian council delegate; Ian Bowness, Aspatria dairy farmer and NFU county chairman’; Agricultural Partner at David Allen Accountants in Dalston, Michael Peile; Julia Aglionby, Armathwaite farmer and Executive Director of the Foundation for Common Land; Lois Mansfield, Professor of Upland Landscapes, and Director of Ambleside Campus; Sharon Sloan, Lely Center Longtown general man
The packed pens at Lazonby’s annual Alston Moor sale, once again the largest single sale of North of England Mule gimmer lambs in the country..Credit Wayne Hutchinson, Farm Images THE livestock auction marts may be living through unusual times with the Covid-19 restrictions, but the pandemic failed to impact of the North of England Mule Sheep Association’s high profile 2020 gimmer lamb sales season. Some 149,000 NEMSA-tagged ewe lambs, 2,000 up on the previous year, were successfully sold this autumn at official annual sales staged by northern auction marts – and in every single instance averages were not only up across the board, but also well up in most cases.
The packed pens at Lazonby’s annual Alston Moor sale, once again the largest single sale of North of England Mule gimmer lambs in the country..Credit Wayne Hutchinson, Farm Images THE livestock auction marts may be living through unusual times with the Covid-19 restrictions, but the pandemic failed to impact of the North of England Mule Sheep Association’s high profile 2020 gimmer lamb sales season. Some 149,000 NEMSA-tagged ewe lambs, 2,000 up on the previous year, were successfully sold this autumn at official annual sales staged by northern auction marts – and in every single instance averages were not only up across the board, but also well up in most cases.