The Scottish Farmer

1 day ago | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Patsy Hunter

Scoring a hat-trick for the herd when brought out by farm manager Stewart Bett and his wife Lynsey, was a five-year-old cow by Claragh Franco. She boasts numerous local and national show titles to her name including the overall championship at Ayr for the past two years in succession along with the inter-breed beef honours at the Royal Highland and the Royal Welsh, last year to name but a few.

1 day ago | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Patsy Hunter

Together with New Zealand, Ireland and three other major sheep-breeding nations and in partnership with SRUC, the project aims to provide a platform for national and global comparison of methane and carbon-dioxide emissions from sheep for the purpose of selective breeding for lower-emitting animals. Building on existing and previous project collaborations at home and abroad, the project uses portable accumulation chambers across all countries for individual animal methane measurements.

1 day ago | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Patsy Hunter

Breeding cattle sold to £3450 for a seven-year-old Limousin cow with a British Blue bull calf at foot from Les Driver Limousin genetics proved popular at the Lingfields Beef Cattle Fair at Skipton where a top price of 6200gns was paid for the rising four-year-old bull, Garrowby Spitfire. The multi-breed sale was led by a bull bred at Garrowby Estate, but consigned by New York Farms, Silsden Moor.

1 day ago | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Patsy Hunter

Sale leader was the third prize bull and sole entry from James and Helen Rebanks, who run the Racy Ghyll herd at the Lake District farm of the same name in Matterdale. Their Racy Ghyll Aldo, an April 2023-born son of Mochrum Colonel, is a half brother to the 20,000gns Racy Ghyll Jay 2, which matched the breed record price last autumn. Aldo is out of Racy Ghyll Brighteye, and sold down to Devon when joining Gratnar Farm Partnership, North Bovey, Newton Abbott, who run a 75-strong herd on Dartmoor.

2 days ago | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Patsy Hunter

Born in 1946 in the Maternity Home in Kilmarnock, David was the eldest son of John and Jean Shedden, and an older sibling to his twin brothers, Douglas and Ian, who followed four years later. Initially, David attended Dundonald Primary and then went to Glaisnock Agricultural School where he was a boarder. He also attended Kilmarnock Technical College, where he studied business.