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Sutherland shepherdess in running for top award

Joyce Campbell
Joyce Campbell

A Sutherland sheep farmer is in the running for a prestigious award.

Joyce Campbell, who runs 780 North Country Cheviot ewes at Armadale, is one of four finalists in the running for the first ever AgriScot Scottish Sheep Farm of the Year Award.

The competition was formally launched at last year’s AgriScot event and it follows on from the success of the event’s Scottish Dairy Farm and Scotch Beef Farm of the Year competitions.

AgriScot chairman Andrew Moir, who farms at Mains of Thornton, Laurencekirk, said: “We are absolutely delighted with the quality of the entries that we received. Our Sheep Farm of the Year Award is about promoting positivity in the sector, showcasing and celebrating how farmers make the most of their farming systems.

“The finalists have put real effort into telling us their story and showing how what they do on farm is ensuring their sheep enterprise has solid credentials.”

The other three finalists are: Sion Williams who runs 3,200 Blackface and 1,300 upland ewes at Bowhill, Selkirkshire; Peter Hedley who keeps 1,000 Cheviot ewes at Swinside Townfoot, Roxburghshire; and David Cooper who keeps 1,300 Herdwick and 1,700 Welsh Mountain ewes at Tardoes in east Ayrshire.

All four finalists will now be visited by the group of three judges. The winner will be announced at the AgriScot event, which takes place on November 18 at Ingliston, near Edinburgh.

The judges are Richard Blake from award sponsor Thorntons Solicitors, award-winning Highland sheep farmer John Scott from Fearn farm in Tain and industry advisor Rhidian Jones from SRUC.