Farm News
Yorkshire bed push raises
more than £8k for charity
»»Recent winner of NFYFC Club of
the month was Yorkshire’s own Winksley
cum Grantley YFC, whose 55 members
meet at GrantleyVillage Hall.
They won after a mammoth fund-raise
in March this year, in which they pushed
a bath from Ripon to Scarborough – a
distance of 60 hard miles. Sponsorship
raised more than £8,000 which has
been split between equally between the
Club’s supported charities: Yorkshire Air
Ambulance and Leukaemia & Lymphoma
Research.
Members – who do well at sports and
stock judging as well as fundraising have become closer as friends since the
big push – and reckon this remarkable
achievement shows that they can turn their
hands to anything. The next big fund-raiser
is to be announced!
Seventy jobs saved at livestock auction
»»The jobs of 70 full-time and part-
auctioneering business and secures a large
time staff at a livestock auction business
number of rural jobs,” explained Russell
Roddick and Laurie, is leading the company
have been saved after the business was
Cash.
through its early stages, alongside his
prevented from going into administration.
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers
Marts PLC (C&D) was sold by joint
administrators Russell Cash and Ben
Woolrych for an undisclosed sum.
C&D operates livestock auctioneering
markets at Longtown and Carlisle. The
Longtown business boasts the accolade of
brother Stuart. He said: “We are delighted
“The new owners have been hugely
supportive and we wish them every success
to have acquired C&D’s business, which
with their plans to develop the business.”
provides a vital livestock auctioneering
‘we wish them every
success with their plans
to develop the business’
and land agency facility to the farming
community.
“We will be busy from day one,
continuing and further developing the
busy sales programme with the help of the
existing staff team and we will, of course,
being Europe’s largest sheep market.
“The deal is a great result for the
John Thomson, a director of Thomson,
He also thanked Barclays Bank for
be working hard to ensure that we continue
farming communities in the Borders as it
its continuous support in a difficult
to enjoy the support of the agricultural
preserves a fully-resourced local livestock
situation.
community.”