The Farmers Mart Feb-Mar 2019 - Issue 61

58 RIVERHOUSE FARM FEB/MAR 2019 • farmers-mart.co.uk sell at around 550-580 kilos. Our biggest customer is Radford’s in Sleights and we also sell a lot to David Broster’s Farm Shop on Lindley Moor near Huddersfield and to Worsley’s in Liversedge.’ Jeremy and Marilyn had the Christmas Fatstock Show champion at Selby Mart winning with a Belgian Blue X Blonde heifer bought in February last year at Bakewell and have previously won the homebred class at Easter several times. ‘Breeding a winner yourself gives a lot more pride because you know how much effort you’ve put in, but because we generally calve in April it is the wrong time of year for our homebred stock at the Christmas show and sale because the first Christmas they’re too young and by the second they are gone. That’s why it has to be a bought in beast at that stage. The Morley Brothers at Fylingthorpe near Whitby used to fetch some really nice cattle into Malton, and we would often go up there and take a look around with our mouths wide open at the quality. Foxy Lady was one of theirs and was in our herd well into her 20s and still produced cracking calves.’ ‘ Our summer shows are Malton, Ryedale and the Great Yorkshire. We just take two beasts as we see the shows as our holidays. We’re there to enjoy ourselves and if we do well that’s a bonus ’ ‘My father David died young at just 50 and my mother Maureen gave a silver sal- ver as a trophy at Malton Show. We won it with a homebred heifer. That’s the trophy I’m most proud of and we set up show- ing to win it in the 90s. We won the old Northern Counties Livestock Show at York Auction Centre that is now Countryside Live! With a Belgian Blue X Limousin called Ruby. She was one of the first we bought from the Morleys. She went on to win at Birmingham and everywhere we took her. Our best Great Yorkshire Show was when we had reserve champion bullock with a homebred Charolais six years ago.’ ‘Our summer shows are Malton, Ryedale and the Great Yorkshire. We just take two beasts as we see the shows as our holidays. We’re there to enjoy ourselves and if we do well that’s a bonus. Last year we showed a native Hereford bullock. Our friend Richard Bowling had been to Hereford market and told us he was sending half a dozen and that there was this really decent one for showing. He wasn’t bad at all and we had a bit of fun with him. That’s what it’s about for us. We’d rather enjoy what we do than worry about things.’ Marilyn and Jeremy got together through their love of showing. Marilyn’s brother Martyn has a suckler herd and runs a contracting business at the home farm at Ebberston where Marilyn grew up with her late parents Gordon and Jean Craggs. Marilyn was secretary of Snainton YFC and Ryedale District. Her career has included working at Ripon livestock mar- ket, Castle Howard and she has been with Ralph Yates’ in Malton for several years. She’s also a trained chef and came up with We are proud to supply Jeremy Waind of Riverhouse Farm HIGH QUALITY ANIMAL FEEDS Farm assured quality cattle & sheep feeds available for Nationwide Delivery. Dry cereal rations suitable for all breeding and fattening stock at very competitive prices. Available in bulk or 1 tonne bags delivered or collected. Agricultural & Rural Supplies Malton - 01653 600328 carrs-billington.com A VARIETY OF HIGH ENERGY FEEDS • Cereal Mixture (approx. 14% protein/12.5 ME) • Cereal Blend • Mixed Pellets (approx. 16% protein/13.2 ME) (approx. 18% protein/14 ME) from £175 per tonne ex store from £180 per tonne ex store from £195 per tonne ex store 1 tonne bags delivered anywhere in England & Wales: • Cereal Mixture £225 delivered • Mixed Pellets £245 delivered • Cereal Blend £230 delivered CALL NOW: 01949 844700 | www.midlandfeeds.co.uk ‘ Breeding a winner yourself gives a lot more pride because you know how much effort you’ve put in ’ a fantastic full English breakfast when I was there at Riverhouse! Jeremy chose not to become the fifth generation of butchers and provisions merchants in Kirkbymoorside that had started with his great grandfather Sammy and trades as S Waind & Sons. ‘I was lucky Richard took the butchery side as it never appealed to me and he’s very good at it. When Richard married, we split the family partnership amicably and I went into farming livestock.’ ‘Before then I had kept stock for the shop initially, worked for Cundalls when I left school and was understudy to Harry Dimmy in the furniture sales section as well as working in Malton livestock market. That’s how I knew Chris (Clubley) as he was also with Cundalls. He rang to say he was short of an auction clerk at Selby and would I help out for a month. That was 30 years ago and I’m still at Selby every week. The livestock at home and showing cattle with Marilyn plus the work at Selby suits me fine.’

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