The Farmers Mart Jun/Jul 2015 - Issue 40 | Page 43

Cattle

LIMOUSINS LEAD THE WAY IN SPRING
SPECTACULAR SHOW AT NBA’S 2015 BEEF EXPO
»»It was a day of Limousin
domination in the Spring
Spectacular Show at the
National Beef Association’s Beef
Expo 2015, York, with Limousin
sired animals picking up all
the major titles under judges
Wilson Peters, Crieff Perthshire,
and Craig Robertson, Pitlochry,
Perthshire.
Heading up a quality field of
more than 150 show cattle were
Ruthin, Wales-based brothers
Rhidian and Cai Edwards,
entered under T C Edwards and
Sons, Corwen, Denbighshire,
when they took the event’s
Supreme Championship with
their Limousin cross heifer
Sooty (pictured here).
This 547kg entry was bred
by the Bowen family and was
on her first show outing of

the year. Commenting on his
champion, Wilson Peters said: “I
was looking for a champion that
fitted the bill for a high street
butcher’s beast and she met
that criteria completely with a
loin full of meat, a balanced top
and a great set of legs with a

cracking head to match.”
Doubling up at the top of the
line for the Limousin breed was
Bourne, Lincolnshire-based
Trevor Lyon at the halter of his,
Linda and son Johnny’s Steer
Champion Midnight Black.
Weighing in at 579kg, this one

is by former stock bull Ironstone
Enigma and out of the same
dam as the successful show
heifer Temptation.
Commenting on the
breed’s success in the Spring
Spectacular, British Limousin
Cattle Society Chief Executive,
Iain Kerr said it was a credit to
the exhibitors that Limousin
sired animals had fared so
well. “The Limousin breed has
built its name around being
the Carcase Breed and the
cattle on show here were a
tremendous reflection of that.
“The Limousin bull sales in
the May period have been very
strong and this has been due to
the demand for and profitability
of Limousin cross cattle in
livestock markets across the UK
week in, week out,” he said.

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