United Auctions (UA) announced yesterday that it is to rebrand its pedigree bull sales as the Stirling Bull Sales and cast adrift the Perth Bull Sales into the sea of memories.

For three years, over-worked farming journalists have had to type the clumsy title: " the Perth Bull Sales now held at Stirling" into our reports, but that will change in October.

The Perth Bull Sales were established in 1865 and transferred to Stirling in 2009 as part of the company's amalgamation of its Perth and Stirling businesses into a single centre of operation at the new Stirling Agricultural Centre.

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