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. Last year the College showed their animals at local shows but course Instructor Megan Jenkins was keen that the …

The YDP workshop programme has certainly kicked off with a bang this year with a new look host for the first workshop of the summer. The Eastern region workshop team headed to the East of England Showground, Peterborough, where William Haire welcomed some 19 participants. Cattle came from from Shadwell, Duncan and Tracey Jeary’s Briston herd, Hawstead Lodge and Nick & …

It’s going to be yet another jam-packed year of Youth Development Programme workshops this summer and the full list of workshops across the UK and Ireland has now been completed. As ever, participants will be able to gain tips and knowledge from some of the industry’s leading stockmen and women, as well as learn and perfect their stockjudging knowledge and …

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. Host for the first part of the event, which for the second year running was sponsored by Dawn Meats, was Pat Lambert whose commercial suckler enterprise consists of …

YDP members were in full force at the Stirling Bull Sales in a new initiative started by the Society whereby two young enthusiasts get the chance to shadow the Society’s breeder consultant Neil Caul in the ring for the judging. The aim of the experience is to give the members a chance to experience a high profile event from a …