Nuffield Scholar – Steven Sandison, Sponsor – The MacRobert Trust Objectives of Study Tour Are the benchmarking targets suggested by industry bodies realistic? What is the best being achieved here in the UK/Ireland? What do those farmers have in common? Which management practices are important? What can we learn from farmers in other countries? Countries
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Richard Tudor is a shining example of how to operate a profitable upland beef enterprise. He is making the most of every morsel of land for his spring-calving, 140-cow suckler herd to generate outstanding gross margins of £704 a cow – £100 above the best Welsh upland farms on average. THE JUDGES LIKED Outstanding grassland
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I’ve recently returned from a sponsored study trip to New Zealand which I enrolled in through the Scottish association of young famers. On the tour were 20 curious young farmers looking to further their knowledge and understanding of agricultural production overseas. It was evident that shortly after our arrival, the group as a whole were
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ONE family with a deep seated commitment to the development and success of both the Royal Welsh Show and the Welsh Winter Fair are the Pughs of Cwm Whitton. The late Verney Pugh, a former Royal Welsh president, was one of the handful of the event’s founders. His son, Colin, has been a senior steward
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A breed secretary’s diary….. Wednesday 16th September 2015 After 10 months of planning a Salers trip to the National Salers Show in Saint Flour, France to see 400 Salers cattle in one place I get a facebook message from a French breeder (thanks Benoit David)…… the show is cancelled! With total disbelief I frantically try
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ELEVEN YEARS ago Rachel Hallos turned up at the Great Yorkshire Show with just a home bred heifer. The former greeting card manager who had never shown cattle before had left her husband Stephen at home to look after their two young children and the farm on the West Riding-Lancashire border. Her debut went well
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While most beef breeds are experiencing a reduction in demand for breeding bulls the Salers is bucking the trend. Monitoring of the official BCMS figures by the Salers Cattle Society shows more suckled calf producers are buying Saler bulls. Although the breed is proving increasingly popular as a herd sire with the job of producing
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Five years on from purchasing his first pedigree Salers cow, David Watson of Darnford, Banchory enjoyed a bumper trade at the November 2013 Salers Cattle Society show and sale at Castle Douglas, jointly topping the sale with a price of 6000gns for the reserve senior champion Darnford Earl. David also secured 5500gns for the bull
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SINCE ITS introduction to the United Kingdom back in the early 1980s, the Salers breed has witnessed a slow but steady rise to fame. And it’s the maternal abilities of the breed that have really pushed it onwards, proving to be an excellent suckler cow in both pure and cross-bred herds. And it’s the ideal
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Pedigree Salers cattle have proved to be the right choice of breed for the Pyes. Brothers Terence and Malcolm Pye and their respective wives, Jane and Gill, set up their farming partnership more than 20 years ago at Leven Fields Farm, Middleton – on – Leven, Yarm. Both Terence and Malcolm worked for large multi-national
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