Recent changes to the way Johne’s Disease risk is scored in cattle health schemes mean buyers need to pay careful attention to health status declarations in sale catalogues to ensure they understand the Johne’s status of the stock they are buying. For more information and an explanation of the new Johne’s risk level classifications please [...]
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An Orkney farming family are delighted their cattle were chosen as the source of the Scotch Beef served at the Diner des Grands Chefs, one of the most prestigious gatherings of top chefs in the world. The Scotch Beef PGI served at the charity dinner, for which guests paid £600 per ticket, was sourced by [...]
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A donation of £4270 has been made by the North East Aberdeen-Angus Club for the work of the Prince’s Trust in Scotland helping unemployed youngsters to secure training and work experience. The cheque was presented by past chairman, Wendy Willox, accompanied by new chairman, Alex Davie, to two Prince’s Trust ambassadors, who have both benefited from [...]
Read full storyNADIS have launched a monthly webinar of the Parasite Forecast and Disease Alert as part of a monthly webinar journal for farmers – “Advanced Livestock Skills”. To view the webinars please click on the link http://webinars.nadis.org.uk/distributors/nadis.aspx Like the Parasite Forecast bulletin each webinar promotes disease control and prevention through veterinary health planning and emphasises the [...]
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The West Mercia Angus club held their spring meeting on Saturday where the club was lucky to have Martin Eccles and Hugh Judd from EBLEX do a world class butchery and cooking demonstration of six of the new cuts of beef that EBLEX are promoting. The meeting was kindly hosted by the Robertson family at [...]
Read full storyEddie Gillanders has retired as secretary of the North East Scotland Aberdeen-Angus Breeder Club after 40 years of service and dedication to the club. Eddie was founder secretary in 1973 when NE Scotland Club started soon after ‘The Border’ club, his first chairman being Douglas Grant, Skilimarno. Over the past 40 years, Eddie has largely [...]
Read full storyEvidence from past sales would indicate that the bulls which are more difficult to sell are those whose weight for age falls into the lower quadrant when compared with their peers. So to help you decide if your bull’s performance matches that of his fellows, the Society has produced a ‘Weight for Age’ sheet which [...]
Read full storyThe Society’s Technical Committee will be visiting SRUC’s Green Cow Project facilities at Easter Howgate, Mid Lothian on the 19th March with a view to looking at feed efficiency and methane capture facilities in the hope that with there might be the possibility of funding an Aberdeen-Angus bull evaluation project. The facility currently undertakes methane [...]
Read full storyAs you will have seen in the recent Society Newsletter, breeders have until the 28th February to inform the office if they do not wish the Myostatin status of their bulls to be published on the web. To date all the Myostatin results, whether collected through official sales or as a result of members sending [...]
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More than 266,000 Aberdeen-Angus sired calves were registered with the British Cattle Movement Service in 2012, an increase of more than 3% on the year before, reaffirming the breed’s position as the most popular native beef breed sire in the UK and the second most popular beef breed sire. Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society chief executive Ron [...]
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