What a manic weekend – Friday in Mohill, Republic of Ireland, Saturday in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and then we ended up in Wigtownshire, South West Scotland on Sunday – we’re either really keen for YDP or completely mental!? This area saw a new location for 2015 and the McCornick Family welcomed us to Boreland, Newton Stewart and what a …

The sun always shines when the YDP hits Mohill – we always seem to be lucky and bask in the glorious weather and the host for the day Mac Crowe said that he always cut hay when the YDP was in town. Last year’s workshop didn’t quite go to plan with flight delays but the YDP team made sure we …

The Scottish Borders workshop has always been up and down with numbers over the years and sometimes locations have been difficult to source but this year everything fell in place. We were very kindly invited to hold a workshop at Buccleuch Estates Farm near Selkirk. I knew Stock Manager Dougie Rennie when he worked with Angus in the Midlands and …

YDP always gets a tremendous amount of support in Northern Ireland and Alan Morrison has helped me for many years get things organised. This year Alan and his family offered to host the workshop and I hope it wasn’t too much pressure on him! We had great sunshine in The Republic of Ireland the previous day but the same couldn’t …

Following another successful summer season of thought provoking and educational training at various workshops held across the UK and Ireland, the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society is now in full flow planning the National Final for the Youth Development Programme. Rotated around the UK and Ireland, this year’s final will be hosted in Godalming, Surrey, at the home of Angus Stovold’s Rosemead …