INFLUENCE OF THE LIMOUSIN SO IMPORTANT IN PRODUCING QUALITY SUCKLED CALVES
Feature on Will and Gillian Sedgley, Low Bank House, Barbon, Nr Carnforth, Lancashire
Making a start in farming certainly isn’t easy but a young couple on the border of Cumbria and Lancashire are proving that...
Breeding quality stock for the pedigree and commercial market
The McFarlands of Rahoney
Ireland and its counties are sub-divided in a unique way; counties into baronies, baronies into parishes, and parishes into townlands.
The townland is a unique feature of the Irish landscape and is...
FANCY THAT SECURES VICTORY FOR LIMOUSIN AT THE WINTER STOCK FESTIVAL
The 2018 East of England Winter Stock Festival took place on Friday 30th November and Saturday 1st December at the East of England Showground, Peterborough. Billed as the premier livestock show in the East...
STOCKDALE FAMILY PRIORITISES “HIGH GROWTH RATES, PLENTY OF SHAPE, AND EASY CALVING”
Feature on the Stockdale family’s commercial suckler herd at Oat Croft Farm, Burnsall, near Skipton in North Yorkshire.
Brothers, Jim and Richard and Richard’s son, Dan all work on the family beef and sheep farm,...
Quality and Consistency the Key for the Wrights of Hunthills
The first word that springs to mind when it comes to describing Hunthills is traditional. The family farm, near Dumfries in Scotland, relies on tried and tested methods of suckled calf production, with the...
Limousin – Meeting the Demands of the Marketplace
LIMOUSIN - MEETING THE DEMANDS OF THE MARKETPLACE
A Northumberland family which credits the Limousin with helping them to meet the demands of today’s customers has started to make an impact on the pedigree circuit,...
Limousin “Ticks All The Boxes” at Rudda Farm , Scarborough
A family with connections to a livestock auctioneering business has chosen the Limousin as the main breed for its suckler herd and finished cattle enterprises.
Rudda Farm belongs to Doug and Rachel Gascoine, who trade...
WEST WALES SUCKLER HERD EXTRACTS LIMOUSIN ‘GOLD’
Feature on DR Owen & Son, Sandilands, Tywyn, Aberystwyth
A pastel shade of green might well be the preferred colour choice for most of the 700-plus luxury static caravans on the four sites a Meirionnydd-based...
VERSATILE, EASY CALVING, TOP CARCASE TRAITS
Limousin cattle perfect for the Jack family as they ‘just get on with it’
Limousin bloodlines underpin a relatively new livestock enterprise, which has become a passion for the Jack family who farm at Carriston...
MULL OF GALLOWAY FARM FOCUSED ON ‘EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCTION’
Here we feature the 300 cow suckler herd, and ten strong Limousin bull battery, of the Sloan family’s Mull of Galloway Farm situated in the most southerly point of Scotland.
There are few Limousin cattle...
