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The annual Christmas Cracker Livestock event was held at Halls Shrewsbury Livestock auction centre.

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00:00Jonny Diamond, we find you in between a Santa snowman and a Christmas tree, how are you?

00:05Very well, thank you, yes.

00:06So it's Halls Auction.

00:08Christmas sale today, yep.

00:09Cool, so you do a few special things, don't you, at the Christmas event?

00:13Fill us in on what's going on today.

00:15So we've got the Christmas Cracker Sale of Dairy Cattle,

00:18which the judge will be here shortly to make her way with that.

00:22We've got the various trade stands and all that that's all around you here.

00:26And a Christmas show of calves and sheep as well.

00:29You need a bit of fun, don't you, in the farming world,

00:32because this time of year with the weather it's pretty hardcore, isn't it, for you at the farming community?

00:36It was pretty extreme this weekend, just gone, that's for sure.

00:39Yeah, too, right.

00:40And you do kind of a best penning show and a few things like that?

00:44Yeah, in the lambs it's best penning show and in the dairy cattle it's best cow, best heifer

00:49and the overall champion, which is for the Brian Chandler Cup,

00:52a local, well-respected guy in the semen world from the Borders.

00:58And is this, have you had to dust off your Christmas jumper, is this the first outing for it?

01:02Oh yes, it's the first outing this year, yeah.

01:04Great stuff. Cheers, Johnny, have a good day.

01:07Right, I'll tell you what then.

01:08So you've just won Best Cow.

01:10What's your name, sir?

01:12David.

01:13And which farm do you represent?

01:14Mill and Heath Farms.

01:16Are you surprised at winning Best Cow or did you kind of think, yeah, I've got it?

01:20No, we saved a good cow for this one.

01:22Yeah, yeah, cool.

01:23And are they generally well behaved, these ones?

01:25They are, yeah.

01:26You have to say that, now they've got a certificate.

01:28Go on, what have we got then?

01:30So now the competition's still in full flow,

01:32so it comes down between Best Cow and Best Heifer for best kind of run of the day.

01:35That's right, yeah, today we're all champions, so we'll see how they get on.

01:38Fingers crossed for you, sir.

01:42So this isn't Ribena in here, is it?

01:44It's not.

01:46It smells like mulled wine to me.

01:48No, no, it's definitely Ribena.

01:50Ribena with cinnamon in it.

01:52Ribena with cinnamon.

01:53No, it's fine.

01:56There you go.

01:57There you go, ladies.

01:58You got one.

02:00Hi, what's your name?

02:01My name's Jo.

02:02And who do you represent, Jo?

02:04I'm from Shropshire Rural Support.

02:06Of course you are, let's have a look.

02:07It says what it does on the tin.

02:09And you've got a special little, I was going to say little fella there,

02:12but it could be male, could be female.

02:14It could be.

02:15We have a little competition today, Name Our Highland.

02:17Cool.

02:18What are some of the names that have come in?

02:20Anything quirky?

02:21Well, we've chosen the names already and people choose off our list,

02:24so we've got everything from Daisy at number one,

02:26all the way down to Treacle at number 15.

02:28I like Treacle.

02:29It's she, he looks like a treacle to me.

02:32All right.

02:33Cheers, Jo.

02:37How you doing, ladies?

02:38You okay?

02:39Good, thank you.

02:40And what business do you represent then?

02:42We represent Leeton Forest Christmas Trees.

02:45Aha, so busy time of the year for you.

02:47Very busy.

02:48Yeah, yeah.

02:49And is it a bit of a family affair we've got going on here?

02:51Yes, yeah.

02:52Mother and daughter?

02:53Yeah.

02:54What's it like working for mum then?

02:55It's really enjoyable.

02:56Yeah.

02:57Very similar, we've got the same interests.

02:59Yeah, yeah.

03:00Makes the day go very fast.

03:01That's good then.

03:02And Reeves Christmas Trees, which is the big seller this year?

03:05The Reeves look gorgeous to be fair.

03:08Both the Reeves and the Christmas Trees we've done really well this year.

03:11We've run wreath workshops on the Christmas Tree Barn.

03:15Yeah, yeah.

03:16And they've gone really popular this year, haven't they?

03:18Yeah.

03:19The old classes we've run have been really full.

03:22And just on the outskirts of Beaumare Heath if people want to get involved.

03:25So check it out guys, Leighton Forest Christmas Trees.

03:28Thank you ladies.

Christmas Cracker event at Halls Livestock Auction Centre.

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