Scottish beef event

Ali

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• May 28, 2015

• #2

Was a really good day and a great set up.
Pity that it pished down for the sale and you couldn't get near the ring

 

JP1

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

• May 28, 2015

• #3

Ali said:

Was a really good day and a great set up.
Pity that it pished down for the sale and you couldn't get near the ring

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Any photos Ali?

 

Ali

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• May 28, 2015

• #4

Sorry JP. Never got any

 

Happy

Member

Location

Scotland

• May 28, 2015

• #5

Surprised the Scottish beef guru's on here haven't mentioned
this event. 3500 attended so strange nothing really about it on TFF before or after.

Must be either in shock or denial at a seemingly highly succesful self replacing suckler herd relies solely on Limousin cattle.
Not a Simmy in sight

 

shearerlad

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Perthshire, Scotland

• May 28, 2015

• #6

It was an excellent day all round. Venue and stock are a huge credit to the Alexander family and their team.

Was a real pity about the rain from about 3pm.

 

Chris F

Staff Member

Media

Location

Hammerwich

• May 29, 2015

• #7

If you can add next years show to the events calendar - I'll speak to them to see about doing some more promotion for them. Sounds like a good show.

 

Chae1

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• May 29, 2015

• #8

@CharcoalWally

 

CharcoalWally

Member

Location

West of Scotland

• May 29, 2015

• #9

Chae1 said:

@CharcoalWally

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Afternoon @Chae1 . I'm afraid I wasn't there so can't comment on the day. From what I hear there was a big turnout.

Were you on the stand with your cattle?

 

Chae1

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• May 29, 2015

• #10

CharcoalWally said:

Afternoon @Chae1 . I'm afraid I wasn't there so can't comment on the day. From what I hear there was a big turnout.

Were you on the stand with your cattle?

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No my brother @Durris Dave was on stand.

 

KennyO

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Angus

• May 29, 2015

• #11

@CharcoalWally They don't let @Chae1 out to speak to the public

 

Chae1

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• May 29, 2015

• #12

KennyO said:

@CharcoalWally They don't let @Chae1 out to speak to the public

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I was keeping the barley trade up drinking lager.

 

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Stuart J

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

UK

• May 29, 2015

• #13

I was very impressed by his stock- specifically the black limousin cows.

They really didn't look like typical Lims, more native than the big bummed red Lims.

Lovely and quiet too.

 

S

Stuart J

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

UK

• May 30, 2015

• #14

Encountered a very pessimistic atmosphere throughout the crowd however.

 

shearerlad

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Perthshire, Scotland

• May 30, 2015

• #15

I would agree @Stuart J but I think that is due to the crap spring.
Cold wet weather, lack of grass and dwindling fodder stocks are not good reading for cattle farmers at the moment

 

M-J-G

Member

Location

Sunny Scotland (But I wasn't born here)

• Jun 6, 2015

• #16

Just saw this thread, it was a good day out, plenty of people, cattle, and trade stands. Unfortunately there was plenty of cold wind and rain too.

Every farm visit is educational and teaches you something, sometimes that can be in the form of something that you see and like, and other times it helps you realise that what you have at home isn't that bad.

 

CharcoalWally

Member

Location

West of Scotland

• Jun 6, 2015

• #17

martin gribbon said:

Just saw this thread, it was a good day out, plenty of people, cattle, and trade stands. Unfortunately there was plenty of cold wind and rain too.

Every farm visit is educational and teaches you something, sometimes that can be in the form of something that you see and like, and other times it helps you realise that what you have at home isn't that bad.

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Sometimes the host learns things too!!

Went on an Open Day years ago. The host was farming Simm X Holstein cows AIed to the Lim. bull. He insisted Hol X cows were needed for milk and that the Lim. couldn't be beaten as a sire. He refused to buy a stock bull as he said they weren't good value and that AI was a far better option. He was farming easy 120+ cows.

A year later he was AIing the cows to the Charolais bull.

Six months further on he was in Perth market buying a Simmental bull.

So , he ended up as far removed from his starting point as he could.

 

M-J-G

Member

Location

Sunny Scotland (But I wasn't born here)

• Jun 7, 2015

• #18

Happy said:

Must be either in shock or denial at a seemingly highly succesful self replacing suckler herd relies solely on Limousin cattle.
Not a Simmy in sight

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Did you consider the replacement strategy as a success? In what way?

 

CharcoalWally

Member

Location

West of Scotland

• Jun 14, 2015

• #19

martin gribbon said:

Did you consider the replacement strategy as a success? In what way?

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Well , to quote Simon and Garfunkel from many moons ago , "I hear the sound of silence."

 

Happy

Member

Location

Scotland

• Jun 15, 2015

• #20

CharcoalWally said:

Well , to quote Simon and Garfunkel from many moons ago , "I hear the sound of silence."

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I wasn't at the event, dagging ewes all that week and had the farm tour on trailer when Scotsheep was there 10 or so years ago.

Read a couple of the pre-event articles in the farming press and came across very much as if the Lim breed was the answer to breeding your own replacement cows within a closed herd which everyone who attended would have demonstrated to them so was expressing my surprise that the event had barely featured on here given that view goes contrary to everything anyone other than @shearerlad has been saying here for months.

 

Last edited: Jun 15, 2015