Advertising booking forms for quarterly Review now available

Advertising booking forms for quarterly Review now available

26.01.2017

Members who have received their annual Review will be aware by now that we’re moving the publication to a quarterly magazine.  This magazine, which is aimed at being an 80-100 page merger of the Newsletter, The Angus and The Review, will offer timely and topical news, views, features, show and sale reports and all the latest from various Society projects. …

EGM proxy forms

EGM proxy forms

Further to the EGM notice mailed out in early January, the Society has been advised that proxy votes must be offered. As our articles do not contain provision for the content or delivery of a proxy form, our only option at this stage is to offer the proxy form as an online download. Therefore, please download the proxy form, fill …

Idvies sell Black Broughton son in private deal to Germany

Idvies sell Black Broughton son in private deal to Germany

23.01.2017

The 21-month-old Aberdeen-Angus bull, Idvies Pink Parson R696, bred by the Fraser family at Newton of Idvies, Forfar, has been sold in a five-figure private deal to German breeders, Messrs Marc and Holger Born, Hessen. By the 2015 Royal Highland interbreed cattle champion and National Show champion, Shadwell Black Broughton K485 – which has bred sons to 22,000gns – this …

Type classification workshop proves popular with breeders

Type classification workshop proves popular with breeders

The Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society recently called upon the knowledge of Holstein UK’s head classifier Meurig James to give a workshop on the benefits of type classification as a management tool aid.  The workshop took place at Andrew Hodge’s Rulesmains herd in the Borders with a good turn out of members looking to expand their knowledge on the subject.  Here’s a …