A new format for the Livescot committee saw them host a Pedigree Calf & Lamb Show on the Friday evening which proved to be a great success for the event. Winning the Inter-Breed Pedigree Calf Champion was BRAILES SAMSON owned by Brailes Livestock and brought out by the Rettie Team, Methven. Winning the breed section earlier that evening, Samson had also previously won the Junior Championship a few weeks prior to this at Stars of the Future. This flashy young calf is a Westcarse Houdini son out of Basset Orange.
Brailes Samson, Interbreed Pedigree Calf Champion
Saturday of the show weekend brought a day to remember for the well-known couple Craig & Katreen Malone, Pitcairn, Fife.. a day they had both dreamed of since childhood, and a dream they’d always hoped they could both achieve. Finally, their dreams came true in the form of SILVER LINING, a Charolais cross steer purchased from Duncan and Judy Semple, Dippen, Argyll after standing champion at United Auctions sale at end of September. Sired by a home bred bull, Carradale Felix out of a Lim X cow, he crossed the weighbridge at 622kg. Standing first in his class in the morning under the watchful eye of judge Jimmy Woods, Popes Farm, Preston, he went on to take the Steer Championship closely followed by the prestigious Supreme Beef Cattle Champion before finally selling to Kitsons Butchers in Yorkshire for £5600. As a buyer of 450 to 500 head of prime cattle each week for his meat business, the butcher said: “This beast had presence right from the start and was shown in just the right condition to appeal to the high street butcher’s market, with just a perfect amount of cover.”
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Producing quality commercial livestock has long been the focus for the Gordon family from Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and is something they have strived to achieve each year. Katrina Macarthur reports. Since…
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6 March 2017 Future beef farmers = Charolais Future beef farmers are using EBVs and focusing on easy calving Charolais bulls, according to one leading university’s students. Charolais was the…
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Alan Meston, Chapelton, Stonehaven Spinning plates comes to mind when you visit at the finishing operation run by Alan Meston at Chapelton Farm, Stonehaven just south of Aberdeen where last…
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Demands for a certain type of product has had a dramatic impact on the herd profiles of suckler operations in hill farming areas, according to Fergal Monaghan. The specialist commonage…
Aberdeenshire cattle breeders, Neil and Stuart Barclay, Harestone, have scooped the top accolades in the Scottish and Northern Charolais Cattle Breeders’ Club annual herd awards. Their 100 cow pedigree Harestone…
Genetics + nutrition + management to maximise the number of kilos per cow as quickly and efficiently as possible Factfile Callum Keir, Cairncoullie, Kildrummy, Alford 500 acres including 150 acres…
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Processors’ failure to notify producers in advance of the changes to their new 400kg to 420kg upper weight limit has left finishers in a quandary, particularly those who have bought…
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Scotland’s leading rural consultancy, CKD Galbraith has been instructed to sell the famous Blelack pedigree livestock enterprise which is situated in a picturesque location on Royal Deeside near the town…
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Charolais crosses swept the board at Clyde and Central Young Farmers Club calf rally at Caledonian Marts, Stirling. The Young Farmers supreme championship went to Goldie Locks, a 10…
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Sean McGovern Charolais club committee member visited the farm of Paul McConnell & family situated on an elevated site overlooking the Clogher Valley, the uplands provide good grazing in summer…
Charolais reigned supreme at Stars of the Future in Stirling on 16 November by taking the top two Continental interbreed slots; Glenericht Hilary secured the supreme senior award and Falleninch…
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Cumbrian beef producer, Mark Bowman is focused on maximising output per suckler cow and has found that he has been able to boost annual income by over £200 a head…
Farmers Weekly/Harper Adams Beef Focus farmer Simon Frost has just hit one of his lifetimes targets for his suckler herd with a daily carcase gain (dcg) of his bull calves…
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We asked a random selection of suckler men at the February Perth bulls sales what are their main criteria when choosing Charolais as their herd’s terminal sire. While it came…
