Royal Highland 2025
Both the temperature and the quality were high in the Charolais ring, at what turned out to be an extremely successful Royal Highland Show for the breed.
Allen Drysdale of the Glenericht herd in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, was tasked with judging a strong turnout on day one of the four-day event and he gave the overall title to the male champion, Falleninch Tommy, ensuring a third Highland Show championship for Andrew Hornall, Falleninch, Stirling. Highland Show 2025
Balmoral Show 2025
It was a successful Balmoral Show for the Charolais breed, with a top-quality line-up, turned out to perfection in the sunshine, for judge David Barker, of the Caylers herd in Nuthampstead.
Taking the overall championship award was the two-year-old, in-calf heifer, Stranagone Uncanny, from Robert McWilliams, Maghera, Co Londonderry. She is sired by the home-bred Blelack Digger son, Stranagone Jones, while the dam, Harestone Panjai, is a heterozygous polled daughter of Harestone Jaquard, bought at a Harestone online sale. As a calf, Uncanny was reserve junior female champion at the Future Stars Calf Show at Swatragh.Balmoral Show 2025
Welcome to the British Charolais Cattle Society
We are a registered charity – a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, to serve the public by promoting and improving the Charolais breed.
Since 1962, we’ve been making the case for Charolais because no bull works harder for the farmer, the plate and the planet.
Charolais offers a bright future for British beef. Charolais is the best breed for British farmers, because it’s more sustainable and profitable, due to its:
- Continued improvement to calving ease
- Unrivalled growth rates
- Outstanding carcass quality
- Killing out percentages
Charolais-sired suckled calves can be:
- Sold as weanlings, commanding top prices and regularly topping markets up and down the country.
- Stored through the winter and finished off the farm at 12-15 months on a forage and grain-based diet.
- Brought through the winter on a maintenance diet and finished off with grass the following summer, depending on the farm’s system.
The Charolais breed is renowned for crossing into profit due to its outstanding attributes.
By collaborating with the cattle farming community, the British Charolais Cattle Society is driven to minimise costs and maximise the efficiency of British cattle farming.
Find out more about the Society here.