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.