AFTER almost 28 years of farming at Attonburn, Yetholm, Kelso, Charles and Mary Symons held a farm displenishing sale, conducted by Harrison and Hetherington, where top quality breeding stock and well maintained machinery attracted a large crowd of buyers from across the country.
Trade reached £40,000 for a four-year-old John Deere 6125 with loader, while breeding sheep sold to £600 for a North Country Cheviot gimmer. It was purchased by Floors Farming, with proceeds donated to the Doddie Weir 5 Trust. 
The total collected for the Trust on the day of the sale, from the sale of the gimmer, a ‘bucket’ collection and the sale of a ticket for Sunday afternoon’s Newcastle V Liverpool football match, donated by James Herdman, Edlingham Newtown,  amounted to £4778.51 – a figure which is still rising. 

LEADING prices:

Machinery – John Deere 6125 and loader (13 reg) £40,000; John Deere 6630 and loader (11 reg) £39,100; Marshall 11T Tipping trailer £6900; New Holland BR6090 round baler £6200; Major 12ft offset topper £6000; Stewart bale trailer £5200; Hustler bale unwinder £4200; Lotus 600 Stabilo combi tedder £4000; Claas Liner 430S rake £3700; New Holland 940 small square baler £3700; Fleming 5.5T end tow ballast roller £3500; McHale 991 LBER bale wrapper £3100; Yamaha Grizzly 450 ATV £4000 and £2800; tracks for Grizzly ATV £1850; Glendale mobile sheep race and IAE gates £4100; Harrington sheep handling system £750; Logic snackers £820 x2; ATV trailers £720, £650, £510; round bale squeeze £660, £510; lamb weigh crate £300; nine walk through sheep feeders £520, £510; silage feed trailer £700; footbath £600; cattle ring feeders (pair) £200; sheep ring feeders (pair) £135 (x2); bale spike £290; Ford tractor weights £260; cement mixer £170; calving jack £150.
Input lots – Livestock equipment on behalf of CJ and LE Dixon – Mowhaugh lamb creep £580; ATV snacker £390; 10 sheep gates £400; six sheep gates £540, £500; Qty sheep hurdles £440; mobile sheep race £230; cradle feeders (pair) £120; swinging gate sections £250 (x2); lambing pens £270.
Breeding sheep – NCC – Gimmers – £600, £160, £150, £140 (x2), £135. One-crop ewes – £140, £135. Two-crop ewes – £150, £140, £130. Three-crop ewes – £155, £130. Four-crop ewes – £112, £100. Five-crop ewes– £88, £82.