people Leading Aberdeen-Angus breeder recognised with an MBE for her services to the breed Anne Morrison founding member of the Aberdeen-Angus Quality Beef (AAQB) co-operative has been awarded an MBE for her promotion of the breed and services to the agricultural sector over the last 40 years. Growing up on her family farm in Perthshire, Mrs Morrison has always had a passion for agriculture, so when she saw what the Aberdeen-Angus breed could offer farmers and the supply chain, she was keen to promote this. “My drive to bring AberdeenAngus back to the forefront of beef production stems from when I started working for the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture in 1969 with my colleague at the time Jim Jack, who was very enthusiastic supporter of the breed,” explains Mrs Morrison. “A few years later my husband and I started the Tullyglush herd with the purchase of two heifers, from which our herd has grown over the years.” Mrs Morrison says the challenge back then was that the
market demand for AberdeenAngus was very limited. So, along with Jim Jack and NI club members we set out to increase the awareness of the benefits of Aberdeen-Angus in the hope we
could raise the appetite for this breed in Northern Ireland. “When a butcher approached the NI club for cattle in 1994, we saw this as a fantastic opportunity. A feasibility study identified a
possible supply of five cattle per week. In 1997 I led a successful breed promotion campaign which resulted in the formation of the AAQB co-operative in April 1998.
2022 CLAAS Scholar announced Molly Robinson, a Year 2 BEng Agricultural Engineering student at Harper Adams University has been awarded the 2022 CLAAS Scholarship. Molly is the first female student to win the prestigious Scholarship, which was instigated 16 years ago by Helmut Claas. As this year’s
scholar, Molly will receive £3000 towards her education costs each academic year, in addition to an initial three-month placement with a CLAAS UK owned dealership prior to a 12-month paid placement at the CLAAS headquarters at Harsewinkel in Germany.
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