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Region: South West Scotland
Thank you to farm hosts from South West Scotland Club
Message from Fiona Clark of the South West Scotland Aberdeen-Angus Club:
May I take this opportunity to thank all our host’s who very kindly welcomed club member’s on our weekend trip to Aberdeenshire. We visited seven herds in two and a half days from 3ft above sea level to 1000ft. It really was a superb trip [...]
Feature: Burghill Farms
The move to Aberdeen-Angus in a suckler herd previously based on Continental crosses has greatly eased the management load at Burghill Farms, Brechin, Angus.
Rawburn sell top genetics in private sale to new breeder
The Rawburn herd of the Elliot family, Roxburgh Mains, have sold two of their best females to a new breeder for the total sum of £22,000.
YDP trainer feature: Johnny Elliot
In the first of our series on YDP workshop trainers, we speak to south Scotland/Borders host and trainer Johnny Elliot on what he hopes to teach the participants and his thoughts on the YDP programme itself
Leading Angus commercial herd to host open day
An Aberdeen-Angus open day is to be held at Westside, Edzell, Angus, on Saturday, May 29, by kind permission of Lord Dalhousie’s Burghill Farms.
Elixir son sells at 6500gns
Coming from Caithness Messrs D and M Tait have sold their second prize Inkstack Primeline H322 (lot 119) for 6500gns to A King, Ormiston, East Lothian. By Ankonian Elixir 100 he is out of a Rawburn Transformer daughter and has a SRI of +49 and an eye muscle figure of +4.7.
At 4100gns Alan Lawson has [...]
Elliot draft tops Angus females at 14,000gns
Leading the trade for Aberdeen-Angus females and topping the draft offering from John Elliot’s Elliot herd was Lockerley Primrose E489, a January 2005-born female bred by the Van Geest family.
Blelack finish on ultimate high to take overall championship
A delighted Graeme Massie has just been tapped out by judge Albert De Cogan to take the overall championship here at Stirling.
Record entry for Black Beauty Bonanza
A record entry of 120 Aberdeen-Angus calves and yearlings has been received for the Black Beauty Bonanza show at Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, on Saturday (November 14).
National Show calf champion sells privately to Borders herd
The National Show calf champion and English National Calf Show heifer calf champion Rull Francis J092 from Edward and Claire Jones, Cullompton, Devon, has been sold privately for £6000 to Andrew Hodge, Duns, Berwickshire, for his Rulesmains herd.
Stock Sales
Sales
- 20th April 2010
DUNGANNON
90 Granville Road
Dungannon Farmers Mart
Co Tyrone
Tel: 02887 722727 - 3rd May 2010
THE PERTH BULL SALES AT STIRLING
1st Feb: Show and Female Sale
2nd Feb: Bull Sale
Stirling
United Auctions
Tel:01786 473055
Email: stirling@uagroup.co.uk - 21st May 2010
CARLISLE
Harrison & Hetherington
Borderway Mart
Rosehill
Carlisle
CA1 2RS - 11th September 2010
THE PERTH BULL SALES AT STIRLING
1st Feb: Show and Female Sale
2nd Feb: Bull Sale
Stirling
United Auctions
Tel:01786 473055
Email: stirling@uagroup.co.uk - 25th September 2010
BEST OF BLACKS
John Swan
St Boswells Auction Mart
Melrose
Roxburghshire
TD6 0PP
Tel: 01905 769770
Email: stboswells@johnswan.co.uk - 9th October 2010
CARLISLE
Harrison & Hetherington
Borderway Mart
Rosehill
Carlisle
CA1 2RS - 14th October 2010
BRISTOL
McCartney’s Auctioneers
The Heath Meadow
Nunnery Way
Worcester
WR4 0SQ
Tel: 01905 769770
Email: worcester@mccartneys.co.uk - 18th October 2010
THE PERTH BULL SALES AT STIRLING
1st Feb: Show and Female Sale
2nd Feb: Bull Sale
Stirling
United Auctions
Tel:01786 473055
Email: stirling@uagroup.co.uk - 25th October 2010
DUNGANNON
90 Granville Road
Dungannon Farmers Mart
Co Tyrone
Tel: 02887 722727
Shows
- 1st May 2010
NEILSTON - 20th – 22nd May 2010
DEVON COUNTY - 22nd May 2010
OTLEY - 29th – 30th May 2010
HERTFORDSHIRE - 31st May 2010
SURREY COUNTY - 2nd-3rd June 2010
STAFFORDSHIRE - 10th – 11th June 2010
THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND SHOW - 10th, 11th, 12th June 2010
ROYAL CORNWALL - 12th JuneANGUS
- 18th – 20th June 2010
EAST OF ENGLAND - 18th – 20th June 2010
THREE COUNTIES - 23rd – 24th June 2010
LINCOLNSHIRE - 24th – 27th June 2010
ROYAL HIGHLAND - 27th June 2010
DERBY - 30th – 31st June
BORDER UNION - 30th June – 1st July 2010
ROYAL NORFOLK - 13th – 18th July 2010
GREAT YORKSHIRE - 17th – 18th July 2010
GT ECCLESTON & DISTRICT - 19th – 22nd July 2010
ROYAL WELSH - 27th July 2010
RYEDALE - 7th August 2010
ST MELLONS - 12th August 2010
OKEHAMPTON - 18th – 19th September 2010
NEWBURY & DISTRICT - 26th August 2010
BUCKS COUNTY - 4th September 2010
MORETON IN MARSH
