The second day of the European Angus Forum included a visit to a tea plant and a farmers’ cooperative. The latter is a hugely successful operation based on Sao Miguel island (the largest of the nine islands making up the Azores) supplying everything the majority of the island’s mainly dairy farmers need. Some 80,000 cows are milked on the Azores …
European Angus Forum – diary from the Azores by Johnny Mackey
European Angus Forum – diary from the Azores by Johnny Mackey
Alex Sanger and I joined the European Angus Forum tour in Lisbon airport early Thursday morning (19th May). Three days of the mainland tour had already happened and some breeders headed home leaving the remainder, plus some new arrivals, to head into the five-day Azores leg. By all accounts some superb large herds of cattle had been observed on the mainland, …
Haughton-bred heifer wins Newark and Notts Show
Haughton-bred heifer wins Newark and Notts Show
Carrying on a recent winning form for Haughton-bred genetics, Owen Tunney and Peter Whittaker’s jointly owned heifer Haughton Lola R151 stood top of the line at Newark and Notts Show at the weekend under judge Juliet Swires of the Cragg herd. Entries were limited at the show, due to TB restrictions, but quality remained high. Lola is by Rawburn Elysium …
Sign up to a YDP workshop at Beef Expo and get the chance to win a heifer
Sign up to a YDP workshop at Beef Expo and get the chance to win a heifer
Young beef cattle enthusiasts visiting the Aberdeen-Angus stand (number 42) at this year’s Beef Expo will get the chance to be entered in to a prize draw to win a pedigree heifer, kindly donated to the Society’s industry leading Youth Development Programme (YDP) by Kevin Moores of the Formby, Liverpool-based The Moss herd. Anyone aged between eight and 24 years …
Haughton Levi P105 wins Balmoral Show
Haughton Levi P105 wins Balmoral Show
Strong class numbers graced judge Angus Stovold of the Surrey-based Rosemead herd today at Balmoral Show where he found his champion in the form of the senior bull, Haughton Levi P105, from James Porter. Bred by Whittaker Farms, this Hallington Evo L333 son was purchased in Stirling in October 2015 for 20,000gns having stood senior champion and prior to that …