Limousin’s Maximise Beef Enterprise Returns
With several members of the Nixon family relying on the income from Stotsfold Farm in Northumberland, it’s essential that profits from the beef enterprise are maximised. That’s why they’ve chosen the Limousin - a...
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...
‘High Performance’ Limousins The All-Round Beef Breed at Cwmbromley
The family behind a farming business that has been buying Limousin bulls for many years believes the breed cannot be beaten. Ted and Merle Davies, and their son, Wayne, run their Limmy bulls with...
PREMIUM EARNING LIMOUSINS PRODUCING IDEAL SIZE, SHAPE AND WEIGHT
Farm feature on Andrew and Mark Brown, Asby Hall, Nr Appleby, Cumbria
The Limousin is unbeatable for producing calves that can earn a premium price at that early age, says Cumbria suckled calf producer Andrew...
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...
Limousin breeding and efficient management are key to producing quality beef for Northern Ireland...
Murtagh Walls Feature
Murtagh Walls and his family farm at the picturesque foothills of the Cock and Hen Mountains in the Mournes, close to Hilltown, Co Down. He is the third generation to be farming...
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...
‘ALL-ROUND’ LIMOUSINS A ‘PERFECT FIT’ FOR THE SEDGEWICKS
Since this feature was compiled Gordon & Julie Sedgewick of Ricknall Grange Farm, Aycliffe, Co Durham have gone on to win the highly prestigious Beef Farmer of the Year title in the 2015 Northern...
THE SPARKES OF LITTLE SWINBURN, HEXHAM
A family producing store cattle in north-east England has been using the Limousin as a crossing sire for two decades.
Kevin Sparke and his family manage 1,000 acres of grassland at Little Swinburne, near Hexham....
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...
