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Rainy Brown award for Ian Duncan Millar

PERTH FARMER Ian Duncan Millar has become the most recent recipient of the prestigious Ed Rainy Brown Memorial Award.

A truce with trees

SCOTLAND’S DRIVE to plant more trees may be unpopular with farming’s old guard – but the many potential new entrants to our farming sector might feel more open-minded to the idea after this week.

Farm incomes – beware the ‘F-factor’

WHILE SCOTTISH farm income figures issued this week by the Scottish Government paint a picture of positive growth in Scottish farming, the ‘F-factor’ – soaring prices for feed, fuel and fertiliser – are a major concern.

Cameron’s beef income concern

SCOTLAND’S SPECIALIST beef units fared badly in the Farm Business Income figures released this week, with an alarming 14% income drop – so its high time the sector got itself organised to better represent its producers in the political arena.

Shows

Kilpatrick win for George’s filly

Foal show sees increase in entries

Lady Lynne tops Grampian Foal Show

FORDELHILL LADY Lynne continued her winning streak last weekend at Thainstone’s Grampian foal show.

Cross Border raid on Ulster spoils

At last week’s Royal Ulster Winter Fair in Belfast the championship headed off south again – with a fair bit of wind behind it, it has to be said given the prevailing stormy weather conditions.

Scots triumph at Smithfield

A Charolais heifer made history by securing the supreme championship at the inaugural East of England Smithfield Festival, Peterborough, last weekend – the first time a pure Charolais has won the Smithfield title and the first time since 1979 that any pure bred has achieved such a feat.

Business

Crossing Blues in the money

Crossing-type Bluefaced Leicester females met a flying trade at a breed sale at Carlisle, selling to 8000gns on two occassions.

Limousin females in demand

Trade peaked at 4000gns at the British Limousin Cattle Society’s sale of haltered and unhaltered females at Ballymena Mart last weekend.

Worrying decline in beef cow numbers

Cull cow prices have soared in the past year as consumers both in this country and on the continent seek out cheaper beef.

Texel gimmer tops Chelford at 2500gns

A Clougher President-sired gimmer shown by Charlie Boden, she sold to Hampshire breeder, David Bradley-Farmer.

100% clearance for Texel females