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...

BROCKWOODLEES LIMOUSINS PROVIDING QUALITY CATTLE TO THE HIGH STREET BUTCHERS

Feature on the finishing enterprise of David Dickinson, Brockwoodlees, near Canonbie, Dumfriesshire. Specialising in the supply of quality cattle for the private butcher’s market requires an unerring eye for the selection of stores and attention...

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...

‘QUALITY COMES FIRST’ IN THE DINMORE LIMOUSIN HERD

Saturday 19th September:  Upper Dinmore Farm will host the British Limousin Cattle Society's 2015 Open Day. Everyone welcome. The Dinmore herd is well known in pedigree circles, but it’s the Limousin breed’s commercial attributes that...

LIMOUSIN “THE ULTIMATE DUAL-PURPOSE BEEF BREED” AT MAINS OF MAUSE!

Commercial feature on the 1,000 strong Limousin suckler herd, featuring 35 Limousin stock bulls, of the Alexander family, Mains of Mause, Blairgowrie, Perthshire. Scottish Beef Association ‘Beef from the Hills’ event to be hosted at...

‘ACHIEVING THE MAXIMUM’ WITH THE LIMOUSIN BREED

Feature on the 150-head commercial suckler and 20-head pedigree herds of Nick Tennant, Manor Farm, Bridlington, East Yorkshire A Limousin sire has been used exclusively for many years on the commercial suckler herd belonging to...

THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT BULL STUD: GIVING CROFTERS ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY GENETICS

Feature on the Scottish Government’s Crofting Cattle Improvement Scheme and bull stud based at Knocknagael Farm, Inverness. On a hillside above Inverness is the farm of Knocknagael.  Knocknagael is owned by the Scottish Government which...

LIMOUSIN VERY MUCH THE BUTCHER’S CHOICE

Feature on the Wildgoose Family, Scarcliffe Hall Farm, Scarcliffe, Chesterfield, Derbyshire and Springwood Farm, Sutton Scarsdale, Chesterfield. Ian Wildgoose says the reason behind his family’s unwavering commitment to the Limousin is simple: “Most of my...

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...

‘MARKETABLE’ LIMOUSIN KEY TO FINISHING ENTERPRISE

Upper Coton Farms, situated on the edge of the Northamptonshire village of Guilsborough, finishes some 900-head of Limousin-cross stock each year with the marketability of the Limousin breed at the core of this finishing...