Move to pedigree beef pays off for Scottish farming family. By Angela Calvert, Farmers Guardian, October 11th 2024 edition. Boreland Farm, near Kirkcowan, in southwest Scotland, has been run by the McCornick family for almost 100 years, but in the last 20, the livestock system has undergone a significant transformation. Switching from dairy to pedigree beef and sheep was a …

A focus on efficiency and achieving market premiums led to an East Yorkshire couple establishing an Aberdeen-Angus herd. We found out more about the farm business and how it has grown to become a supplier of breeding bulls to farmers in the region. East Yorkshire couple Robert and Davina March established their Abbeywold herd of pedigree Aberdeen-Angus cattle in 2018. …

There was a small entry of Aberdeen-Angus cattle at the Native Breeds Show and Sale hosted by Dungannon Farmers’ Mart. Leading the annual autumn sale at 5,000gns was the female champion Drummeer Bell Z316 bred by Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society’s senior vice-president Alan Morrison, and his wife Naomi, from Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh. This very smart maiden heifer was reserve Native Breed …