01/09/2009

A new UK and world record has been set with the sale of a sheep for 231,000 thousand pounds. Deveronvale Perfection was sold at the Scottish National Texel sale and his price beat the previous world record, held by an Australian Merino, by around 100,000 pounds. Charlotte Smith talks to the farmer who is now nearly a quarter of a million pounds better off.

Also, the highs and lows of farming. We speak to a family selling up after nearly 100 years milking cows.