MORE than 200 trade stands will feature at a major farming event in East Lothian this summer.

National Sheep Association Scotland’s Scotsheep event is held at the Hamilton family’s Aikengall Farm, near Innerwick.

The biennial event, which takes place on June 5, features trade stands, including commercial exhibitors, sheep breed societies and individual breeders.

There will also be a range of seminars, workshops and working demonstrations highlighting key challenges facing the industry, as well as the opportunities available in the future.

Farming a flock of 1,400 blackface ewes and 900 suckler cows at Aikengall, as well as 1,400 Scotch mules at Nunraw, the Hamiltons like to treat their surrounding environment as an equal enterprise and host a 16-turbine site which is leased to Community Windpower.

Rod Wood, managing director of Community Windpower, said: “We are proud to be a main sponsor of Scotsheep 2024 and are looking forward to welcoming Scotland’s farming community to Aikengall for what will be a fantastic and educational event, recognising the vital contribution that sheep farming makes to the local and national community.”