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NBA Beef
Expo 2015
Scottish duo to judge the NBA’s
National Spring Spectacular Show.
Two leading Scottish Beef
Breeders have been invited
to judge The National
Beef Association’s (NBA)
Beef Expo 2015’s National
Spring Spectacular
Show, to be held in East
Yorkshire for the first time
ever. Both Perthshirebased, Wilson Peters
will judge the Native,
Continental Classes and
Supreme Championship,
and Craig Robertson
will judge the Baby Beef
Champions and Young
Handlers’ classes.
To be held at the York
Auction Centre, NBA Beef
Expo - an integral part of the
British Agricultural calendar
- will be one of the biggest
beef showcases of the year.
With 15 classes, featuring in
the region of 130 head, the
National Spring Spectacular
Show is a platform to highlight
the very best of British Beef
Cattle. Included are classes
for Native, Continental,
British Blue and Limousinsired heifers and steers,
bullock and heifer purchased
at public auction up to
£1,400, baby beef classes,
two young handlers’ events
and an auctioneers’ handler
challenge.
Exhibitors from the length
and breadth of the country will
compete for a placing and a
share of the £5,000 prize fund.
NBA Beef Expo 2015 chair,
Richard Tasker is delighted
to have two such eminent
industry figures accept the
invitation to judge at this year’s
Spring Spectacular as he
explains:

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“Both Wilson and Craig are
very well-known breeders and
exhibitors in the cattle-showing
world and bring with them a
wealth of experience. All of
the exhibitors in the NBA’s
National Spring Spectacular
Show make a huge effort
and commitment to prepare
and show their livestock. The
quality of stock is always
second to none and I know
that the two judges will have
a tremendous showcase to
judge from and a difficult task
to choose the winners.”
Wilson Peters, judging the
Native, Continental classes
and Supreme championships
is originally from Forfar. He
has been a Farm Manager for
15 years at the 4,500 acre
Monzie Estate. Wilson has his
own small herd of commercial
stock which are renowned
in the showing world. At the
2013 the Scottish Winter Fair
Ingliston, his 20-month-old
Limousin cross heifer was
crowned supreme champion
amongst the cattle and with a
different Limousin cross heifer,
he was commercial winner
at the Royal Highland Show
the same year. Wilson has
judged at a number of shows
from Orkney in the North to the
Royal Welsh in The South, and
says:
“It is a great honour to be
invited to such a major show,
and I am really looking forward
to seeing what you know will
be the cream of the crop.
Firstly, I will be looking for a
good correct animal with real
showy attributes, a modern day
carcase, and I would like to
see animal that is fairly fit.”

Craig Robertson, (pictured)
of Newton of Logierait
near Pitlochry will judge
the Baby Beef classes and
Championships. He farms
with his father John a herd
of 170 Limousin and British
Blue cross cows, crossed
back to the Limousin bull.
He has won the Aberdeen
Spring Show four times
during the last five years,
and was the 2002 Smithfield
Winner.
Aged only 26, he has been
a regular young handler of
cattle on the show circuit.
He tells us: “I have judged
widely in Scotland but this
is the first time in England.
It’s an occasion that I am
really looking forward to. In
the baby beef classes I’ll be
looking for a calf with plenty
of style and correctness.”
Craig is keen to see young
handlers entering and

succeeding, he continues:
“It is very important for
the younger generation to
get started. These are our
farmers of the future.”
The closing date for
entries, which is strictly
limited, is 13 April 2015.
For further details, visit
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