• JUN/JUL 2020
TANCRED FARM SHOP 9
its greater degree of marbling than any
other beef. Whether that is strictly backed
up by evidence is another matter. What
I can tell you is, if you’re another beef
farmer reading this, this is my position.
I’ve tasted them all from native heritage
breeds to continentals and continental X
dairy. Lincoln Red is most definitely up
there in the top echelons.
Dean has a herd of between 20-25 pedigree
Lincoln Red cows at any one time.
They are put to the bull in springtime.
‘We bull our cows rather than AI
and have a bull called Wellington that
we purchased from pedigree Lincoln
Red breeder John Kennedy of North
Somercoates near Mablethorpe in
Lincolnshire. It’s his first crop of calves
this year and they are looking good.’
‘I’ll sometimes have to buy-in Lincoln
Red beef from other breeders in order
to keep up with demand in the shop,
but I know who to go to and where
to buy the quality that our customers
are used to. I’ve done my spell as a
member of the council on the Lincoln
Red Cattle Society and I’m currently on
the marketing committee. It’s a fantastic
breed to be involved with and has some
brilliant people involved like Chris Page of
Newport near Brough in the East Riding.
Chris is presently the society president
and one of the leading showmen with his
Foulness herd.’
‘We were butchering around three
beasts per month but during our peak
in lockdown that went up closer to four.
That automatically meant I had to buy
from other Lincoln Red breeders and
rearers.’
‘We like our Lincoln Reds to have a bit
of fat on as we know it is a better eating
quality that way. We will always trim a bit
off if we feel there’s too much. A lot of the
mass commercial butchers don’t want
to get involved in trimming because they
think they’re wasting what they’re taking
off, but repeat custom comes from what
you provide and both marbling within the
beef and fat on the trim adds to the eating
experience.’
‘Ours are mostly grass fed and we take
the beef animals through to around 20-24
months.’
Just over a year ago the farm’s other
main livestock business, pigs, was
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