Mohmar Trophy goes to Northern Ireland The inaugural winner of the Mohmar Trophy is James Porter of Northern Ireland with his Uppermill Herd. The trophy and £1000 prize money kindly donated by Highland Wagyu is awarded for the most successful herd across four qualifying shows. James brought out two great teams of cattle at the Royal Ulster and Royal Highland shows and amassed a very impressive total of 570 points. Alvie Estates were second and Drayton Farm Partnership third.

Results:J Porter 570 1st

Alvie Farms 350 2nd

Drayton Farm Partnership 310 3rd

H Horrell 290 4th

T Severn 160 5th

H Wagyu 150 6th

They run a 120 head suckler herd made up of Lim and Shorthorn cross cows put to Shorthorn bulls.

Offspring are reared to finish and either put through the Low Howgill butchery business or marketed through the Morrison’s Shorthorn Scheme. All replacements are homebred and the event will look at the role of maternal trait EBV’s as well as the use of blood profiling within the herd. Chris Swift will also focus on current general heard health issues.

Programme:

11.00am - Arrival and registration

11.30am - Introduction – Clive Brown EBLEX and John Taylor

EBVs and their role in a healthy suckler herd with a focus on maternal traits – Lucy Webb-Wilson, Signet

Herd Health issues and use of blood profiling at Low Howgill – Chris Swift, Frame Swift & Partner

1.00pm - Lunch and butchery demonstration

2.00pm - Short farm walk to view buildings & cattle

3.30pm - Close and depart

To register for your FREE place, ring the EBLEX events office on 01904 771211 or email: brpevents@eblex.ahdb.org.uk

October Bull Sales

We have again negotiated very favourable rates for staying at the Stirling Highland Hotel. If you wish to book please ring the hotel direct on 01786272726 and state you are staying with the Beef Shorthorn Society. The rates are £79 per room per night B & B single occupancy and £89 double occupancy.

JournalYes it is journal time again already. Please let us have any copy for the journal before October 24th at the latest. We would like to feature our Beef Shorthorn clubs in the journal so can you please badger your club Secretaries to send us a report of all your club activities and let us have results of any herd competitions etc.

If anyone would like to advertise in the journal and is unsure about how to design an advert please let us know and we will help. Don’t be put off by feeling you are not sure how to design it. We can help but do let us know in plenty of time (not on October 23rd!!). We have also included a form with the newsletter to return if you just want to be in the breeders directory.

Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society

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tel: 02476 696 549

email: shorthorn@shorthorn.co.uk

Beef ShorthornAugust 2014Newsletter:

Events 2014:August 26th – Westerbleaton Open Day

September 10th – EBLEX open day at Low Howgill

October 20th – Stirling Bull Sales

October 31st – Agro Expo - Carlisle Calf Show

November 5th – Skipton Sale

November 8th – Chelford Sale

November 13th – Beef South West

November 15th – Stars of the Future Calf Show – Stirling Agricultural Centre

November 20th – Southern Calf Show at Ardingly

December 5th East of England Smithfield Festival – Calf show

Eblex Open Day Eblex are holding a Beef Health Event – Improving the performance of your herd on Wednesday 10th September 2014 at N. B. Taylor and Son’s Low Howgill, Milburn, Penrith, Cumbria CA10 1TL

The Taylor family are previous runners up in the Morrisons/Beef Shorthorn Suckler herd of the year award.

We were very pleased to welcome Tony Fountain from Australia to the Royal Highland show and he gave a very interesting talk on marketing. He obviously enjoyed his visit and is planning to return for next year’s show. It was good to hear an outsider speak so positively about our cattle and also about our marketing. He has given us some excellent coverage in his weekly bulletin the Drovers journal which I understand goes to 19 different Countries.

The new arrangements at the Great Yorkshire Show to accommodate the UK Beef Shorthorn Championships were very successful with the larger judging able to accommodate the large number of cattle in the ring

particularly in the group classes. The large crowd around the ring created a great atmosphere and the winners of each class received enthusiastic applause. It was very encouraging to see several members showing at the Great Yorkshire for the first time and I received many very complimentary comments about the show from people who hadn’t shown there before.

Royal Highland and Great Yorkshire Shows

Two of the major shows of the year attracted a huge entry of Beef Shorthorns. They were two of the best displays of Beef Shorthorns seen for many years and certainly helped to show the world that Beef Shorthorns are once again a force to be reckoned with. It was the best possible publicity for the breed and thanks go to all the exhibitors for putting on such a magnificent display. Congratulations to the two successful winners, N Massie and Sons winning the Royal Highland with Meonhill Centurion (below) & G Riby winning the Great Yorkshire Show with Stonehills Foxyfox (above).

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Beef Shorthorn Society Open Day at Westerbleaton

The Beef Shorthorn Society are holding an open day at Westerbleaton Farm, winner of the Morrisons Beef Shorthorn suckler Herd of the Year Award 2013 on Tuesday 26th August 2014 at 1.00pm. Everyone is welcome but please let the office know if you will be attending to help with catering. SAC and NFUS are sponsoring the open day and will be in attendance. Jim Holden of Morrisons will also be there to answer any questions about the traditional beef scheme and hopefully to encourage more people to supply Woodheads with their Beef Shorthorn cattle. Ian Pritchard of SAC will give a short talk on the importance of health in the suckler herd. Full details of the event can be viewed on the website at www.shorthorn.co.uk

The judge Brenda Wear did a very professional job sorting out the large entry and the icing on the cake of a great event was the attendance of our Patron HRH The Princess Royal who chatted to the winners and presented the Brothers Colling Memorial Trophy to the winner Geoff Riby.