Youth Development

A report on the YDP workshop at Brymore, Somerset by participant Lottie Hill

Youth teams announced for World Angus Forum 2017

This year's YDP Senior Conference in association with Dawn Meats took place in Northampton from 24th - 26th February and it was a resounding success. A huge well done to everyone involved, and thank you to all who helped make it a great weekend.

The 2016 Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society’s weekend event, which incorporated the National Final was yet again a close fought competition between all three age categories, with judges giving particular praise to the younger end of the competitors.

Hosting the South West workshop in the summer was Dudley Luxton and team down in Cornwall where a local team of keen and eager trainers passed on their wisdom

A change of plan for the Central Club area workshop saw Robert McNeil and the Davidson family take hold of the event at Kincardine Castle

Borders Club YDP participants headed to Buccleuch Estates for their regional workshop this summer with some local trainer knowledge and expertise thrown in for good measure.

The Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society is now in full flow planning the National Final for the Youth Development Programme. Rotated around the UK and Ireland, this year’s final will be hosted at the Peterborough Showground of the East of England Agricultural Society and will take place on the 24th and 25th September.

The next workshop this year took the YDP team to Gloucestershire to the home of the Melvin herd of Paul and Kirsty Westaway where we had 17 participants in action, with many new, young faces among us.

Some 14 participants turned out for the Cornish workshop, a record number for the area.

The sun shone proud on YDP trainers for the Glassel workshop in North East Scotland. The event saw 16 keen youngsters take part with a diverse range of expertise and capability throughout.

A great turnout of participants, some 19 in total, turned out for the south east of England workshop, held this year at Council member Rob Bishop's Warrenho herd.

When Easton and Otley College students said they were interested in knowing more about showing cattle, the YDP team were happy to get involved and who'd have thought it, but we managed to organise a dairy part to the itinerary too.

The East of England Showground, Peterborough, was the host for the first workshop of the 2016 programme with some new faces training and an excellent turnout of all ages.

The YDP workshop programme kicks off this weekend in East Anglia, don't forget to get signed up for a workshop near you.....

The second “Beefing Up YDP” senior conference, organised by the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society’s Youth Development Programme, took place at Nether Pitlochie Farm, Gateside, Perthshire, with a strong commercial message from the start.

YDP members were in action in Stirling both in the centre of the judging ring and from the edge of the sales ring.

Following the success of last year’s event, The Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society’s industry leading Youth Development Programme (YDP) has announced plans for a two-day conference for 18-24 year old beef enthusiasts to further their academic and practical skill set.

The Central Scotland workshop is always one of the biggest ones of the year.

The last workshop of the year and we're still filled with the same youthful enthusiasm as when we started.

A new location for 2015, the McCornick Family welcomed us to Boreland, Newton Stewart and what a welcome we had!

The Scottish Borders Youth Development workshop

14 youngsters joined us for the workshop and were treated to lots of great tips

18 participants joined us for a fabulous workshop.

Congratulations to YDP participant Lucy James who received her certificate from Mike Kirby at the SW NBA Beef Event.

The Old Glenort herd of pedigree Aberdeen-Angus cattle belonging to James Porter, Lisburn, was the host...

A little less travelling around this weekend to finish the workshops, but I think it took less time to get from Northern Ireland...

Preparation is in full swing for this year’s Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society Youth Development Programme Final.

A little less travelling around this weekend to finish the workshops, but I think it took less time to get from Northern Ireland...