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

Southdowns from the Kitwell Flock of Tim & Lynn Morris are settling in to their new home at Mudchute City Farm, where they are fast becoming firm

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.

We have kept a pedigree flock of Hebridean Sheep on our smallholding for a few years, mainly for their ease of management. Added to which Hebridean Lamb has superb eating qualities, a succulent tender texture and unique game-like flavour.