ScottishOrganic

27/05/2026

Organic farm walk at Pusk Farm, Balmullo, Fife; and members AGM at Strathtyrum Farm, St Andrews, Fife.
Monday 8th June. Free for all to attend.

A great opportunity to meet up with colleagues & to see the range of enterprises that Strathtyrum estate have to supply their shop and restaurant at Balgove Larder.

Please RSVP to company secretary Jo Barron @ [email protected].

23/05/2026

Come to our Organic farm walk for a great chance to catch up with peers. Open to all, SOPA AGM afterwards for members.

20/05/2026

It's a Bank Holiday on Monday 25th May so the SOPA office will be closed. Normal working hours will resume on Tuesday 26th May.

29/04/2026

It's Great British Beef week & it's so good to see them out at grass and loving the sunshine - how are your cows doing?
Get the BBQs on!

23/04/2026

🌱Are you looking for a certified organic mineral that is kind to the environment and provides the best nutrients for your cattle or sheep?🌱

Did you know that Norvite is certified to manufacture organic minerals?

The ETHOS range provides organic supplements for both sheep and cattle and is certified and approved for use by the ScottishOrganic Producers Association. If you are conscious of your environmental impact, we offer these minerals in a powdered form (waterproofed or in-feed) which significantly saves on plastic waste. However, if a free access bucket works better for your system, we have these available too.

Please call your Feed Adviser or Customer Services on 01464 831261 for more information.

20/04/2026

Further great organic livestock prices seen at the Thainstone's largest livestock sale to date this year on Friday April 10th

15/04/2026

Brilliant to see Bryce and teams passion paying off. A positive for the Scottish dairy industry.

08/04/2026

We're looking for a busy, fun organised events co-ordinator to work with us this summer.
If you're keen to work with Scotland's largest organic network, running farm walks and networking meetings on organic farms throughout the country, get in touch.
Flexi, part time contract between May and October. Find out more here
https://www.sopa.org.uk/news-update/we-are-hiring

07/04/2026

Certified Organic sale of organic store cattle this Friday 10th April, Thainstone Mart
ANM Group Ltd , with a good number of store animals put forward to the ring.

24/03/2026

Record prices achieved for SOPA organic producers in Dumfries

🐮 Dumfries Store Cattle 23rd March 2026 🐮

C&D Auction Marts Ltd held their fortnightly sale of 620 Store Cattle at Dumfries including the Annual Spring Sale of 191 Organic Status Cattle. Action speaks louder than words and their was plenty of action on Monday for all shapes and sizes.

191 Organic Cattle comprised of mainly 10-12 month old cattle and met extreme competition.
Bullocks were topped at £2420 with Charolais bullocks from Hamilton, Woolfords and to 593.3p/k at 11 month old.
Heifers were topped at £2440 for British Blue from Stewart, Marshill and Limousin heifers to 590.2p/kg from Gibb, Toftcombs.

Organic Bullocks average 522.3p/kg to 593.3p/kg and to £2420 from Hamilton, Woolfords.

Organic Heifers average 517.4p/kg to 590.2p/kg from Gibb, Toftcombs and to £2440 from Stewart, Marshill.

429 Non Organic Cattle; big turnout of local and distant Buyers attending with trade easily exceeding sellers expectations.
British Blue cross heifers 18-20 month old from Baillie, Low Glasnick realised £2700 who’s run of 40 heifers averaged £2306.67. Davies, Low Peninver sold British Blue heifers at 569.5p/kg.
Bullocks to £2260 for Beef Shorthorn from Temple, Wyliehole. With British Blue Bullocks from Davies, Low Peninver realising 610.2p/kg

Bullocks average 437.5p/kg to 610.2p/kg from Davies, Low Peninver and to £2260 from Temple, Wylliehole.

Heifers average 406.2p/kg to 569.5p/kg (x2) from Davies, Low Peninver and to £2700 (x2) from Baillie, Low Glasnick.

Bulls average 360p/kg to 395.5p/kg and to £1780 from Barr, Meikle Kirkland

Organic Bullocks per Head
Charolais - £2420, £2260 & £2020 Woolfords
Limousin - £2340 Foulshiels, £2220 & £2140 Toftcombs, £2100, £2040, £2020 Fouldshiels, £1980 Swinside, £1960 (x2) Toftcombs
Aberdeen Angus - £2200 Woolfords, £2100 Toftcombs, £2040 Slack House, £2020 Foulshiels
Beef Shorthorn - £2160 & £2020 Woolfords
Whitebred Shorthorn - £2160 & £2020 Woolfords
Holstein Friesian - £1840 Marshill
Friesian - £1800 Millaires
Hereford - £1800 Garvald Home

Organic Bullocks per Kg
Charolais – 593.3p, 585.5p & 551.2p Woolfords
Limousin – 568.1p (x2) Toftcombs, 566.7p & 558.9p Foulshiels, 555p Toftcombs
Aberdeen Angus – 545.9p Foulshiels, 511.6p Woolfords, 506p Toftcombs
British Blue – 538.7p Woolfords
Whitebred Shorthorn – 538.7p Woolfords
Hereford – 535.7p Garvald Home

Organic Heifers per Head
British Blue - £2440 Marshill
Aberdeen Angus - £2120 Woolfords, £2080 Toftcombs, £2000 Woolfords
Charolais - £2120 & £2000 Woolfords
Limousin - £2120 Swinside, £2080 Toftcombs, £2040 Swinside, £1980 Foulshiels

Organic Heifers per Kg
Limousin – 590.2p & 571.4p Toftcombs, 546.2p Foulshiels, 537p Toftcombs
Charolais – 569.7p & 533.3p Woolfords
Aberdeen Angus – 533.3p Woolfords, 531.3p Foulshiels, 517.1p Woolfords

Bullocks per Head
Beef Shorthorn - £2260 Wyliehole
Limousin - £2210 Dryfesdale Gate, £2060 Seafield, £2030 Shenrick, £1980 Wyliehole
Hereford - £2200 & £1910 Ballinnie
Aberdeen Angus - £2160 Lochpark, £2090 Shenrick, £1980 Seafield, £1910 Highlaw
British Blue - £2120 (x2), £2100 Low Peninver, £2080 Smallholmburn, £2020 & £1980 Low Peninver, £1980 Seafield
Friesian - £2090 & £2040 Lochpark
Simmental - £2080 & £2000 Lochbank, £1980 Rowanburnfoot
Fleckvieh - £2010 Rowanburnfoot, £1900 Seafield

Bullocks per Kg
British Blue – 610.2p, 580.8p, 577.8p, 573.9p & 567.6p Low Peninver
Limousin – 573.3p, 537.3p & 508.3p Low Peninver, 496.8p Crosslee
Aberdeen Angus – 524.1p & 516.1p Gatehouse, 515.2p Burrance of Courance, 501.6p Bogue
Charolais – 516.1p Gatehouse
Beef Shorthorn – 471p Bogue
Simmental – 470.6p Lochbank
Luing – 461.1p Crosslee
Hereford – 447.4p Ballinnie
Fleckvieh – 422.2p Seafield

Heifers per Head
British Blue - £2700, £2640, £2580 (x2), £2540, £2480, £2460, £2320 & £2200 Low Glasnick
Limousin - £2360 The Bush, £2100 Dryfesdale Gate, £2080 & £2000 Low Glasnick, £1940 The Bush, £1930 Seafield
Norwegian Red - £2140 Slacks
Hereford - £2080 Low Glasnick
Charolais - £2050 Shenrick
Aberdeen Angus - £2040 Highlaw, £2030 Shenrick, £1910 High Auchneel
Beef Shorthorn - £1910 High Auchneel
Saler - £1910 High Auchneel

Heifers per Kg
Limousin – 569.5p & 493.8p Low Peninver
British Blue – 561.4p, 531.3p Low Peninver. 477.8p, 473.4p & 472.4p Low Glasnick
Hereford – 451.4p Ballinnie
Luing – 445.9p Crosslee
Aberdeen Angus – 423.90p Marchfield

Please contact your auctioneers for further enquiries:
Harry Begg – 07713 569 593
Alistair Watret – 07715 499 320
Robert Weir – 07885 729 495