NEW chairman of the British Charolais Cattle Society, is Andrew Hornall, a third generation breeder farming 300acres across two holdings near Stirling.
Andrew, who grazes 250 commercial cattle per year on a New Zealand-style grass grazing system, producing high quality beef for his Falleninch Farm butchery business, also runs 20 pedigree Charolais cows.
The family business, of which Andrew is managing director, is a wholesale foodservice provider and retail butcher with commercial property letting and land development interests.
Andrew is also a director of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland with responsibility for chairing of the public relations and education committee (one of three main RHASS standing committees).
Well-known in the show ring, with many successes to date including winning the supreme inter-breed beef championship at the Royal Highland Show in 1996, 1997 and 2003.
In addition, he also won the coveted Burke Trophy at The Royal Show in 1997 with two of his own animals in the year of the Charolais Convention at Stoneleigh, and also won the Perth Bull Sales in 1995 and the Stirling bull sales in 2016.   
A member of the Charolais council for the past five years, a Breedplan committee member for four years and an executive member for two years, he has been on the judge’s panel since 2001 and has judged in shows across Europe.
The society agm, staged at the Livestock Event last week, also saw Peter Donger appointed society president, succeeding Cyril Millar from Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
Peter represented the East Midlands region council of management and was elected society chairman in 2001.
A well-respected and accomplished Charolais judge, Mr Donger has judged Charolais cattle throughout the UK and internationally including France, Hungary and Canada.
Peter, together with wife Sheelagh and family, runs the Seawell herd near Towcester, Northamptonshire.