The Farmers Mart Dec/Jan 2014 - Issue 31 | Page 28

CATTLE

Marsdens Farms Ltd sells
Aberdeen-Angus bull in private
deal to Cogent Breeding
The homebred Aberdeen-Angus bull Liley Ed M021 from
Marsdens Farms Ltd has been sourced by leading AI Company
Cogent Breeding as an addition to their beef portfolio.
Bred in the 120-cow
pedigree herd at Penistone,
Sheffield, Ed is a son of
Rawburn Elmer J921, an AI
sire that has been used with
great success in the herd
and is out of the Rawburn
Enigma G653 daughter
Rawburn Evensong J939,
who was purchased as a
foundation female.

‘This sale is a
big achievement
for this herd’

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PEDIGREE AND
PERFORMANCE
Not only is his pedigree
packed with some of the top
sires of the breed, but his
performance matches with a
positive calving ease of +2. B