Farming Western Daily Press 18 September 2013

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Levels wake up to golden opportunity

BY TINA ROWE tina.rowe@b-nm.co.uk Today may well become known as an historic turning point in the sorry saga of flooding on the Somerset Levels.

It sees the official launch of the Royal Bath and West Society’s Somerset Levels Relief Fund, a bid to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds towards vital river drainage works, and shame the Government into match-funding.

Dairy farmer and Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis will join Royal Bath and

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For more reports and opinion on this issue and farming across the West Country, see www.westerndailypress.co.uk West Society leaders at a launch event near Taunton, to endorse the ambitious project.

Last year’s catastrophic floods are reckoned to have cost the local economy £10 million.

Some farmland will take years to recover.

Speaking exclusively to the Western Daily Press yesterday Mr Eavis said: “Years ago they used to drain the moors by machines called drag lines which were marvellous and kept the rhines and ditches very deeply dredged out. And then the nature conservation people said they were damaging the river oysters and small fish and they made the case for not using machines, and of course now it floods practically every time it rains.

It is ridiculous. These machines have to be brought back. Sometimes you have to choose priorities and we want, and need, the fields and pastures available for grazing.

You have to make priorities in this world. It’s that simple.”

Since government took over responsibility for Somerset rivers 15 years ago the rural community says neglect and higher rainfall has resulted in increasing problems.

Last year’s rain may have been freakishly bad, but the situation was made far worse than it need have been by silt build-up that has left the rivers Tone and Parrett now running at only 60 per cent of their capacity. The Environment Agency argued that dredging was not economic. Now it admits there is a case, but the money has yet to be found.

Government had also told it to prioritise anti-flood schemes in urban areas, including business parks. The countryside, it could be argued, is one massive business park.

The cost of one-off dredging for pinch-points on the Tone and Parrett has been variously estimated at between £1.7 million and £4 million, with annual maintenance another £200,000.

Around £900,000 is in the kitty with contributions from the Wessex Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, Somerset County Council and some Environment Agency grant funding, but the Government seems unwilling to find the remaining £2 million or £3 million and the chance to dredge this year has been lost.

As a charity that has for 200 years researched and advised farmers and other land users on the best use of the Somerset Levels, the Royal Bath & West Society said it felt it was right to “step in as an honest broker and friend, to launch a one-off appeal for funds in order that the present impasse may be broken”.

Firms fined for exposing staff to asbestos A national dairy company has been fined for exposing employees to potentially fatal asbestos at an industrial site.

Asbestos dust and fibres were released in May 2010 during work to remove boilers at a redundant Dairy Crest site near Totnes, Devon.

The three workers, who carried-out the removal work, could face incurable lung diseases as a result of the exposure.

Dairy Crest Limited, of Esher, Surrey, was prosecuted on Friday, September 13, alongside Rochdale Electric Welding Company Limited (REWCO), of Middleton, Greater Manchester.

Martin Lee, a Health and

Police sealed off the Dairy Crest site in Totnes after the asbestos incident

Fog lies over the Somerset Levels during a stunning autumn sunrise near Wells. However in recent times this view may well have been more like a lake due to the serious flooding that has made life a misery for so many farmers

Safety Executive inspector, said after the hearing it was a “very serious incident” that could affect the employees’ health.

Plymouth Crown Court heard Dairy Crest had agreed to sell boilers from the plant at Totnes to REWCO, which also agreed to dismantle the pipework and demolish the boiler house. It began removing the boilers on May 24, 2010, without carrying out sufficient inquiries to see if asbestos was present. Dairy Crest had carried out a suitable survey for asbestos some years earlier, but failed to pass on this report.

Mr Lee said: “There were clear failings by both companies to identify and properly manage and control the asbestos-containing material before work started, and to provide appropriate protection for workers when it did.”

Dairy Crest was fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £22,214 in costs after pleading guilty to one breach of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006.

REWCO pleaded guilty to two breaches of the same legislation and was fined £8,000 with £13,786 in costs.

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Plans, hopes, finance – TB changes it all The scourge of bovine tuberculosis is the dominant debate in West Country farming, and the remedy – a badger cull – has inflamed tensions between people who make a living from the countryside and those who want to protect wildlife. Here, Gloucestershire NFU chairman Charles Mann argues the case eloquently for the cull to continue Kathy (name changed) put her head in her hands as Roger (also name changed) explained how TB has affected their business, their life and their marriage.

Explaining how he had decided to invest half a million pounds and how excited they both were by the expansion of their herd and the promise of the future, his eyes shone.

Then TB struck and his voice broke as he explained how all their plans for new housing and equipment to bring his herd forward into the 21st century will now come to nought, and, more, will jeopardise the very core of his business.

Roger is at a loss as to why the key to the future of his life’s

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work has been hijacked by animal rights groups, and how they are undermining the future of his farm and the whole industry. If they care so much for animals, why do they not want healthy badgers? The 36,000 cows that are killed annually because they have TB, what of them? Do they not accept the science that badgers infect cattle with TB? He is a true countryman and enjoys, understands and protects wildlife. He explains to me that all our wildlife is managed, from bird nesting boxes and feeders in our gardens to the “wildness” of Slimbridge.

Badgers were protected, not because they were rare, but to halt badger baiting. Since their protection in the 1970s and with no natural predator, the population has exploded.

In addition to the problems of TB, the badger is a predatory omnivore and enjoys a varied diet of birds’ eggs, hedgehogs (when did you last see one, even dead on the road?), bumble bees, worms, slugs, an occasional new-born lamb, partridge chicks, voles, fruit and maize. Nature intervenes

when populations are out of control – be it animal or human – by disease, in this case TB. Nobody wants to kill badgers. People think of them as endearing animals, like Badger in Wind in the Willows, not as a carrier of a deadly disease. By managing their population we will prevent the badger becoming, like the rat, a pest, vermin.

Farming organically in the Cotswolds, I supply Waitrose with Aberdeen Angus cattle and our wheat goes to a local mill to be made into bread. We have enthusiastically embraced the Government’s environmental and renewable energy schemes, investing in solar panels and a bio-mass heating plant, along with pollen and nectar plots for birds, butterflies and bees. We run what is known as a “closed” herd. This means that we do not bring in cattle from other farms, other than buying one new bull every five years.

The cattle graze the pastures all year round, only coming into the farmyard for their regular TB testing.

Over the last four years we have had three separate cases where our local vet has turned to me with the dread news that one or more of our cows has bTB. In that one sentence everything changes – plans, hopes, finance. The animals must be “culled” and all movement controls being placed on the farm, rather like being under house arrest. These outbreaks can only have come from our resident badgers, there is no other possible cause and no way to separate our grazing cattle from infected badgers.

As chairman for Gloucestershire NFU, representing the 1,000 farm businesses in the county, the story from Roger and Kathy is a snapshot of the countless visits I have made to far mers’ kitchens, hearing the same tale over and over again.

During the past couple of weeks I’ve been saddened at the claims of secrecy that have been levelled at farmers, the NFU and the Government regarding the pilot badger culls.

It was made clear from the start that those involved in the cull would not be making any comment on any operational matters while the culls were taking place.

The reasons for this – safety and security – are obvious, es-

TB facts

28,000 The number of cattle slaughtered for TB control last year

£500m

The amount it has cost taxpayers to control TB in England over 10 years

£34,000 The average cost of a TB breakdown on a farm, of which around £12,000 falls to the farmer Figures published by Defra

pecially given that the NFU had to get a High Court injunction to protect farmers and their families from being harassed and intimidated by protesters. There are two very different groups of protesters, those genuinely concerned about wildlife and those committed to all-out aggressive tactics to intimidate hardworking farmers, their families and staff.

Farmers, like me, have been very open about the devastating impact bovine TB continues to have on us, our families and our businesses. We have to tackle the disease on all fronts at the same time, including the reservoir in wildlife, if we are going to be able to eradicate it. This is how New Zealand, Ireland, the States, France and Germany have managed to control bTB in their cattle, so let’s not hear the hypocrisy of calling for a boycott of produce from West Gloucestershire farmers who are only trying to protect their herds from disease; you would need to boycott dairy and beef

products from all of these countries as well.

The details of the pilot culls themselves are common knowledge – they are being carried out by professional marksmen, who have undergone specific training, who are employed by two private companies operating under licence from Natural England. The culls are being carried out using a mixture of shooting, cage trapping and shooting to see if this method of culling can be done humanely, effectively and safely. The result will be evaluated by an independent panel of experts.

It is estimated that as many as 50 per cent of all new farm cases of bTB in hotspot areas could be by infection from badgers to cattle. The best scientific evidence available shows that reducing the badger population can have a sustained impact on reducing bTB infection rates.

Until the disease is tackled on all fronts, including in wildlife, cattle herds will continue to get re-infected and farmers

will continue to fight a costly and losing battle, regardless of what cattle testing and movement controls are in place.

We know that culling badgers alone will not control and eradicate bTB in areas where it is endemic and no one has ever said it will. We need to use every option that is available. It is equally important to remember that vaccination alone will not rid us of this terrible disease.

Vaccination of both cattle and badgers has a key role to play in controlling and eradicating this disease but we cannot simply wait around until it is available. Action must be taken now to tackle the disease reservoir in badgers through effective culling.

It has recently been announced that field trials of a cattle vaccine will start in the UK next year. These trials are an important step forward and very welcome but it doesn’t change the fact that, at the moment, there is no cattle vaccine available for farmers to use and the best estimates

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‘Sad’ cull is about harmony Wildlife groups need to keep a sense of perspective on badgers, says Richard Kapff, a Dartmoor farmer and former Defra employee working in animal health I was very glad to see Minette Batters’ article in the Western Daily Press which questioned the strategies of wildlife organisations and their dithering over ecological imbalance and the obvious effects of a growing badger population.

As someone who has both dairy farmed and worked in animal health, I have suffered and experienced the effects and growth of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), and like many others have no wish to see the demise of “Brock” the badger.

Culling anything is a difficult concept to accept, not least when applied to an animal which has played great part in both our imagination and our environment. The aim of the current culling is not to destroy the badger as a species, but to create a healthy population which will contribute to a balanced ecological environment.

We must remember that badgers are not endangered.

They were protected initially in the 1970s because of “badger baiting”, not because there

More than 300 campaigners and activists were out in force last month as news filtered through that the first badger cull was due to start

house each week as victims of bTB. Consider further what happens in the advanced stages of TB, when the cow slowly suffocates (as does the badger) and dies. The infection of bTB is a vicious, unforgiving interaction between the two species and it must be halted.

This culling programme may succeed or even fail. If it fails it is not because the reasons for culling are not genuine or proven, but because the preparation for it has been stifled by past political expedience and cost-cutting exercises. We must believe in and support farming and the production of food as something which is vital for the sustainability of our country and believe that disease in any form should be eradicated.

I believe that the sadness – perhaps even the crime – is that this culling could have been avoided. At a time when it was obvious the rise in bTB was dramatic and costly, when senior vets in the animal health offices were ignored and when there was a need for courage and foresight – sadly lacking in the government of the day, no measures were taken to stem it. If the testing of badgers had continued we would be in a very different place today.

Minette Batters challenged wildlife trusts last week to

comment about the status quo in our countryside – where some have admitted that the badger population has “exploded” at the expense of other species such as the hedgehog and the bumblebee. Just as with past government expedience, we seem to be experiencing a similar silence or deafness on policy within these groups. Is it, I wonder, a case of intimidation? That perhaps individuals remain silent and will not comment because they feel they lack “authority” and organisations fear the consequences of losing loyalty and membership? If it is, then it is a sad state when common sense will not prevail, for surely these organisations have a duty to look at the overall.

The badger is part of our environment and a joy to see. I, like many others, have gone out at night to watch them. But badgers, like any other species must be healthy contextually and considered in a similar light as other species.

This sad culling business is not just about a cow versus a badger operation, but harmony. It is about seeking a healthy, balanced countryside and the sustainability of our many valued species including, not only Brock the badger… but the busy bumblebee and bumbling Mrs TiggyWinkle, the hedgehog.

‘The sadness, perhaps even crime, is that this culling could have been avoided’

from the European Commission suggests it will still be ten years before a workable vaccine is available, assuming the trials are successful.

The injectable badger vaccine that is available is very difficult to administer. An area must be baited, a cage-trap set and checked every morning; it is very expensive, as the vaccination trials in Wales have shown. It is also of no use if a badger already has TB because a vaccine only helps prevent disease, it doesn’t cure it. Vaccination would have little impact in areas where the disease is endemic in the badger population.

These pilot culls need to go ahead without being disrupted. By disrupting them, the protesters are condemning both badgers and cattle to persistent disease. We must use these culls as an important step on the road to eradicating this terrible disease using every option available to us, so everyone can enjoy healthy cattle, healthy badgers and a healthy countryside.

Hundreds of animal lovers gathered in Gloucestershire on the night of the first badger cull in the county to try to disrupt the planned shoot and help any injured badgers

was concern over numbers or their future survival. Over the last 30 years there have been selected programmes which have succeeded in radically reducing bTB. This involved culling infected areas in rings, and enabling healthy setts to re-occupy cleared areas (Clean Ring Cycle). This would have continued in the 1990s, but for government reports which sought principally to save money and seek a very muchneeded vaccine.

Because of political indecision – even prevarication – around 2008-9, there has been a continual sharp rise in the level of infection of bTB in both badgers and cows.

From 2000 to 2008 the incidence of bTB in cattle rose from a few cattle a year to over 10,000 in Devon alone. I worked in a Defra team which exercised a policy which was no more than a shoring up exercise, and consequently witnessed the rise of bTB in cattle week-by-week. I also witnessed the raw end of TB in the abattoir, where the real consequences of dithering on policy were evident. “Why worry,” a desperate farmer commented, “about 100 dead black and white cattle, when you have saved one infected black and white badger…”

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College aims to ‘stay ahead of the game’

BY PETER HALL wdnews@b-nm.co.uk Investment at Cannington Campus, the agricultural college for Somerset, is a sure sign of confidence in the future of farming – despite all the sector’s problems.

The county has suffered more than its fair share of hardships, visitors to the NFU Countryside Day at Cannington were told. There had been the misery of flooding on the Levels last year, leaving a lasting legacy, and the ongoing scourge of bovine TB. A total of 20 visitors from a wide range of industry and organisations spent the morning touring the campus, which is now part of Bridgwater College.

Jeremy Kerswell, senior manager at Cannington, spoke of the decline of land-based colleges over the past 20 years – from 44 down to just 13 – but also of the resilience and revitalisation at Cannington.

There had been heavy investment at the college farm,

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The hot summer has helped butterflies bounce back after a string of poor years, at www.westerndailypress.co.uk Rodway, he said, with £1.3 million for a new milking parlour, cubicle housing and silage pits. New staffing appointments had been highly beneficial, with the balance now, at what was run as a commercial unit, “just about right”.

He said: “I think one of the important elements is that we are honest about our mistakes, realising we don’t get it right all the time.”

Links with industry allow the college’s students to gain access to the latest tools and machinery. With more than 100 full-time agricultural students, plus 60 part-time ap-

prentices, the college’s fortunes had turned dramatically, said Mr Kerswell, but there was still a long way to go.

The farming systems at Rodway were explained by manager Steve Jones, who spoke of the innovative methods used on the 395-acre holding, in many ways experimental. There are plans for two robotic milkers, a completely different management system to keep the farm and its students “up to speed”.

Mr Jones explained the philosophy, adding: “We intend to be ahead of the game, and not waiting for everyone else to do it before us, and then having to catch up.”

The visitors were welcomed

by James Small, Somerset NFU county chairman, who spoke of the “vital importance” of increasing production from local supply.

“The days of fossil fuel being used to run food around the world are running out,” he said, emphasising the NFU’s Farming Delivers campaign message. “We should only be importing what we really need – not what is just convenient.”

Visitors were told the involvement of young people was paramount to the future of the industry, and while farmers’ daughters and sons were still the backbone of agriculture, it was essential to encourage and involve young people from outside.

Alex Stevens, NFU county adviser for Somerset, spoke of the challenges of CAP reform (seeking a simple and fair system), the awaited benefits of the Groceries Code Adjudicator in ensuring the big retailers treated their suppliers fairly, and the success of the SOS Dairy campaign, with milk payments increasing gradually.

“For us, by using social media, it was a campaign run in a very different way to what we have done before,” he explained. “We had consumers on board all the way.”

Maize growers ‘need to repair damage’ Maize crops across the West Country have sprung back after a poor start, but producers must now make amends for cultivation shortcuts taken over the last year, advises James Todd of maize specialists Grainseed Ltd. “All growers should consider at least flat lifting or sub-soiling to get the right seedbed this year,” he said. “A lot of damage has been done in the last two years.” On farms in the South West where Eyespot has been a problem, it was also essential to bury all trash properly before the winter to minimise the threat of the disease in subsequent years, he added.

New event for farmers planning to diversify Farmers hoping to diversify can find out more and get ideas at a new event being held in November. Farm Business Innovation 2013 is taking place on November 28 and 29 at Olympia, in London, and aims to help rural businesses find new ways to use their land to bring in more money. The event’s organisers say around 3,000 farmers are expected to attend and there will be a schedule of seminars and workshops delivered by industry experts as well as the chance to talk to suppliers. Free tickets are available online now at www.thefarmingshow.co.uk.

Meet the cow with herds of online fans

With more than 100 full-time agricultural students, plus 60 part-time apprentices, Bridgwater College’s fortunes have turned dramatically. Picture here is the college’s Rodway Farm PICTURE: STEVE ROBERTS

West’s beef and sheep farmers urged to head east for festival Livestock schedules for this year’s Smithfield Festival – the successor to the old Royal Smithfield Show – are now available and entries are being accepted.

This year’s show will be held at the East of England Showground, at Alwalton, near Peterborough, on December 5 and 6.

The first day will see the pure and crossbred beef classes taking place, with the Supreme Cattle Championship in the afternoon. Alongside this will be the start of the sheep classes, plus judging of the lamb carcasses and beef

ribs. Thursday also welcomes budding farmers in the intercollege stock-judging competition.

The second day kicks off in the cattle rings with the baby beef classes, and the final of the Young Stock Person of the Year. The pedigree calf classes, comprising Aberdeen Angus, Beef Shorthorn, Charolais, Lincoln Red, Red Poll, South Devon and Simmentals, will be in a new pedigree-calf interbreed championship, judged by cattle breeder Danny Wyllie, from Tamhorn, Staffordshire.

Ending the show, as always, will be the official sale of

A view from the archives of the old Royal Smithfield Show

cattle, sheep, carcasses and ribs. Show manager Kerry Buttriss said: “We are looking forward to welcoming exhibitors old and new to the showground. We have some excellent judges and classes for all, a brilliant event for beef and sheep farmers to showcase their stock.”

The main exhibition hall will be filled with trade stands from animal health and livestock markets to country clothing, books and gifts. The closing date for entries is October 14. Contact Kerry Buttriss on 01733 234451 or email kbuttriss@eastofengland.org.uk.

Among the Cornish herds producing milk for Trewithen Dairy, near Loswithiel, is the county’s first ever tweeting cow. Trewdy keeps followers up to date with life on the farm via her Twitter account @trewdythecow. She has also starred in a social media campaign this summer, Trewdy on the Moooove, in which fans have uploaded photos of cardboard cutouts of Trewdy in various places to Twitter and Facebook.

Francis Clarke, commercial director, said: “We understand the importance of using social media to connect with customers and suppliers.”

Feed producer unveils ready-treated range A feed producer says its new range of preserved-added protein grains could help dairy and beef producers extend feed stocks and reduce overall protein costs. Last month Mole Valley Feed Solutions became the first in the region to sell wheat barley and maize ready-treated with Maxammon. The firm’s senior nutritionist Dr Robin Hawkey said: “The Mole Maxi Starch range will have a 4 per cent higher protein level and the treated grain having a rumen friendly pH of about 8.5 to 9 will reduce the likelihood of acidosis and improve the efficiency of rumen bugs.”

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Bees’ nesting is hailed victory for conservation

Toby Baker today joins the Western Daily Press farming team as we expand our coverage of agriculture, rural affairs and food production in the newspaper on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Mr Baker, boss of meat wholesalers and slaughterers Bakers of Nailsea Ltd, is the great grandson of founder Tom Baker. Toby’s two sons, James and Russell, also play a part in the business, which is now innovating and expanding its services to customers. Mr Baker will begin a new weekly column in the Western Daily Press this Saturday – offering an interesting insight into the world of farming and food production in the West Country

Awards honour stars of county’s dairy industry

BY JEFF WELLS wdnews@b-nm.co.uk The winners of the first Somerset Dairy Careers Awards will be revealed at the Dairy Show, taking place at the Bath and West Showground on Wednesday, October 2.

The celebration, organised by the Somerset Dairy Careers Project, aims to recognise the talent Somerset has to offer the dairy industry. Prizes and trophies will be presented in six categories, with a £450 cash prize for one winner.

All cash prizes have been donated by businesses, which will be presenting awards.

Sponsors include: Bakers of Haselbury Plucknett; Lye Cross Farm; Bigwoods Agri Ltd & Deutz Fahr; Mitchells Chartered Accountants; Greenslade Taylor Hunt; Bridgwater College, Cannington Campus and Community Council for Somerset – Som-

erset Society. Dairy employers have not been forgotten as Mole Valley Farmers will present the Dairy Employer Award to a winner who has helped support the next generation of dairy employees in Somerset. As she shortlisted entries to the awards, dairy farmer Caroline Spencer said: “It has given me a huge lift knowing there are such enthusiastic people out there who genuinely want to be involved in the industry.”

Laura Milverton, Somerset

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Classic scene at the Dairy Show – here in 2008 at the Bath and West Showground near Shepton Mallet in Somerset

Dairy Careers Project coordinator, said: “We have been very impressed with the number of the applicants, as this is the first year for the awards. The enthusiasm from all the applicants working in the industry is outstanding.

“With the average age of a farmer at 58, we need bright, enthusiastic young people to drive the industry forward.

We hope that the awards will help to raise the profile of the dairy industry in Somerset and other young people will see the opportunities are out there.”

Funded by the Big Lottery’s Local Food scheme, the Somerset’s Dairy Careers Project is run by Community Council for Somerset which is working to support young people looking to start and build a career in the dairy industry. It is working in partnership with and supported by businesses and organisations with an interest in ensuring the future of Somerset’s dairy industry.

For more information, contact Laura Milverton, project coordinator at laura@ somersetrcc.org.uk or on 01823 331222 or 07980 224351.

For further details, visit www.somersetdairycareers.co. uk. The project can also be found at www.facebook/ somerset dairycareers and on Twitter @somersetrcc.

Somerset’s Dairy Careers Project is a 21-month project, started in July 2012. It has been reported that 21 per cent of dairy sector employers have a workforce skill gap. The project provides dairy sector resource packs for young people aged 14+ focusing on careers in the dairy sector. The project has produced a promotional careers film, website and more. Within 21 months 30 young people will have benefited from specialist courses within the dairy industry in Somerset, with a further 15 being employed or in training within the dairy sector.

A bumblebee reintroduced in the UK after being driven to extinction has nested for the first time in a quarter of a century.

The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in the 1980s, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its wildflower-rich grassland habitat was lost, and was officially declared extinct in 2000.

A reintroduction project has brought queen bumblebees over from Sweden and after two releases of queens at the RSPB’s Dungeness reserve in Kent, the first offspring worker bees have been recorded.

Nikki Gammans, who leads the project, said: “This is a milestone for the project and a real victory for conservation.

We now have proof that this bumblebee has nested and hatched young, and we hope it is on the way to become a selfsupporting wild species in the UK. It’s been a long journey to get here, from creating the right habitat for them, collecting queens in the Swedish countryside, scanning them for diseases and then eventually releasing them at Dungeness. Seeing worker bees for the first time is a fantastic reward for all that hard work but we still have a long way to go to ensure this population is safe and viable.”

The reintroduction project has involved work with farmers to create flower-rich meadows and field margins in Dungeness and Romney Marsh.

Further releases are planned to help build the population.

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Farmers’ bulletin board Market reports FROME Wednesday, September 11 Beef cattle (152) Another increase in numbers with a high proportion of grass cattle coming forward. Few real quality sorts which were in strongest demand and at a premium. Other grades were easier with a number requiring further finishing.

UTM Steers (51) Best steers in short supply with a Limousin from RE Carnell topping the day at 228.5p/kg with others from 210p/kg. A Blonde from C & HM Hooper & Son topping at £1624.

Good finished Continental cross bred cattle met a firm trade but at slightly lower levels to 205p/kg from D Goodall and generally 190p/kg to 200p/kg.

Herefords also in less demand to 202.5p/kg from AS & CB Taylor. Angus met another good trade to 210p/kg from TR Horsington & Sons and £1406 from AG Sansum & Sons Ltd. Shorthorns to 188.5p/kg from AG Sansum & Sons Ltd. UTM Heifers (53) Best butchers heifers again scarce and wanted. A top at 227.5p/kg for a Limousin from RE Carnell with others from 200p/kg.

Leaner types a mixed trade from 170p/kg. Angus to 186p/kg from J Smart. Herefords to 194.5p/kg from AG Sansum & Sons Ltd. Devons to 175.5p/kg from Highgrove Farm.

Overage Beef (45) Another large entry but few quality sorts. A firm trade with the well finished cattle wanted. Limousin steers to 216p/kg from JC Stainer and Angus to 213.5p/kg from D Walwin & Son. Charolais heifers to 178p/kg from D Walwin & Son and Angus to 175.5p/kg from D Walwin & Son. Other grades variable and easier.

Barren cows & bulls (201) A large entry met an easier trade throughout as national numbers rise sharply and overall demand falls for all grades.

Dairy Cows (150) Best Friesian meat cows still sold well on the trade to 140.5p/kg and £1125 from John Baggs Farmers Ltd. A further 10 selling over £1000 and 25 over 130p/kg.

Manufacturing and steakers easier on the day and generally from 100p/kg to 118p/kg. Plainer types from 80p/kg and the many very plain in less demand.

Beef Cows (48) No very smart pure breds to really test the trade. Charolais from Highgrove Farm topping at 153.5p/kg and £1378. Limousins to 149.50p/kg from MJ Osborne.

Angus to 135.5p/kg from BA Russell & Son. Other grades variable and at lower levels.

Bulls (3) Herefords to 137.5p/kg from PJ Dyer. Angus to 127.5p/kg from Henley Grove Farms Ltd. Sheep (258) Prime Lambs (148)Very few forward met a strong trade with well fleshed handy weights selling well. Best prices to 176p/kg (42.5p/kg) from L Smith and 175p/kg (39kg) from G & DM Adams.

Others over 170p/kg. Heavier sorts were a touch less but on a par with the national average with prices over £80 for the best. Many more desperately wanted.

Cull ewes & rams (61) Better fleshed ewes to £50. Best grazing types to £40.

Poorer quality trading either side of £30. Prices generally easier.

Store Lambs A small consignment of store lambs which saw a lively trade with all showing good returns. Top price was £63.50 from S Powell, Bristol.

Others to £57 from G Turner, Pylle and £54.50 from G Adams, Bristol.

Dairy (20) Overall prices settled to a fair trade but demand and bidding steadier than of late with only the best well presented quality types wanted. A strong consignment again this week from AF Leighton saw his best calved Holstein heifers to £1,750 and £1,710, closely followed by David and Simon Cheacker’s heifer at £1,730. Brown Swiss calved heifers saw a livelier trade than of late to £1,530. Calved cows wanted and generally producing the best of the trade. Quality second and third lactation Ayrshire cows again from AF Leighton saw very competitive bidding to £1,810 and £1,770. Another quality consignment presented by High House Farm Ltd included a super Holstein 2nd lactation cow to a top price of £1,850. Young heifer calves to £225.

CALVES (253) Non-export Numbers back but trade was flying. Strong demand for all forward from a packed ringside of buyers.

Continental Bulls A good entry of mainly medium plus bulls that sold to a very fast trade with over half in excess of £300. A large entry of Blues and a super type to £415 from KJ Osborne & Partners. Charolais to £376 from M Carver. Simmentals to £375 from DJ & M Futcher. Limousins to £350 from Brunt Partners. Fleckveihs sold well to top at £415 from RTJ Voizey & Partners.

Continental Heifers Fewer forward but a firm demand especially for Blues which topped at £362 from E James & Son. Limousins to £305 from Brunt Partners. Blondes to £275 from FJ & GT Hannam & Sons. Simmentals to £255 from ACW & SJ Knott. Charolais to £255 from KJ Osborne & Partners.

British Good numbers of Angus and a select number of Herefords saw fast bidding all day. First quality Angus bulls regularly past the £300 mark to top at £345 from RJ Goss & Son. Angus heifers to £260 from the same vendor.

Hereford bulls to £355 from Mitchell Bros and heifers to £282 from John Huxtable. Friesians An improved trade for all Friesians with all grades well sought. Plenty of Friesian customers to produce strong averages at £116 for British and £66 for Holsteins. A super run of British Friesians from RF Stratton & Co saw five of their calves over £200 to top at £220. Older Holsteins to £222 from Hoskins Partners. Younger Holsteins to £168 from RJ Phillips & Son. Plenty in excess of £100. Most over £50 with only the plainest sorts under £25.

Friday, September 13 Store cattle (1070) Organic Cattle: Another good entry for our September sale with close to 120 presented. A number of quality cattle on offer and with more organic buyers attending premium prices were achieved. Wonderful suckled (13mo) Charolais from Martin Brown to £1,135, £955 & £940 with his heifers (15-16mo) £910 and £875. Hereford and Angus all seeing very keen demand with Steers (13mo) to £950 and heifers to £735 from regular vendors J & M King Brain. Super Simmental steers (16-17mo) once again from M/S Foster all topped £1,000 ranging from £1,025 to £1,195. Forward quality Angus heifers presented by Charles and Theresa Allward easily reached £1,245. Suckler Cows & Calves: Smaller numbers this week but those on offer were well sold.

Limousin x Cows with Angus Calves 1mo @ £1,160 & £950. Hereford x Cows with Angus Heifer Calves 1mo to £960.

Breeding Bulls: Pure Bred Sussex Bulls were wanted and saw prices to £1,080. Young Simmentals to £845.

Young Continentals: A grand show of cattle in this section which brought forward many more buyers from the North and Eastern part of the country.

Trade was superb and matched the quality on offer. Many regular vendors having consignments which saw the majority of 10-11mo Continental steers over £800. 40 excellent home bred Simmental Steers & Heifers 10-12mo from James Foot often over £800 to peak at £892 with his Heifers £665. Very choice Limousins 13-14mo from David Miller and Family saw prices to £940, £938 and £900 followed closely by Heifers at £838, £795 & £780. This section seeing a really good start to autumn. Forward Continentals: A good entry of feeding cattle forward. Fleshed types at a huge premium following the increasing finished prices. Best fleshed younger Blue Steers met a massive trade to £1,460 (22mo) from Dave & Emma Carnell and Limousins from £1,250 to £1,472 (23mo) from Peter Ross. Other quality Limousins to £1,395 from S & B Pile and Simmentals to £1,265 from St Giles Farms. Increased numbers of framed feeding cattle forward following reduced grass availability met a fast trade from the large company of buyers forward. Blues met keen interest at £1,165 from St Giles Farms Ltd and £1,135 from Rory and Rachel Geddes with Charolais £1,178 and £1,138 from Brian Trott.

Simmentals equally wanted at £1,165 from both St Giles Farms Ltd and John, Ray and Russell Cock. Younger fleshed Blondes also a premium to £1,162 from David Puzey. Best forward Heifers were another tremendous trade over £1,000 with Charolais Heifers to £1,115 from Brian Trott and £1,100 from Roger and Martin Few. Simmental Heifers wanted from £1,038 to £1,105 from St Giles Farms Ltd and £1,070 Roger and Martin Few. Top honours for the Limousin Heifers go to Peter Ross at £1,265.

Others to £1,060 from Dave and Emma Carnell. Younger Heifers equally in demand with several consignments from £880 to £985 from numerous

George Rawlins sowing and rolling grass seed near Syrencot Pennings, on Salisbury Plain. He is using a Vaderstad RDA400s RADAR Drill vendors. Entries are invited to take advantage of this stronger demand.

Hereford (142) What a trade for the larger entry of quality consignments forward. Best steers over £1,000 with the highlight of the Herefords going to the Bowerman family. Their cattle ranged from £1,032 to an amazing £1,325. Other good steers sold well to £1,198 from Brian Trott, £1,195 from AM Catley-Day, £1,150 from John, Ray and Russell Cock, £1,070 Peter Ross and £1,040 David and Andrew Fry. Medium framed feeders wanted from £868 to £960 from The Crabb Trust, Bolehyde Farm Partnership and Mrs S Lloyd-Harris. Yearlings wanted from £680 (11mo) from the Newth family to £800 (13mo) from Peter Rood. Heifers met another outstanding demand with the best from £900 from Roger and Martin Few, £970 from AM Catley-Day, £980 from Brian Trott to top at £1030 from Peter Ross. Medium fleshed heifers from £860 from Mrs S Lloyd Harris, £885 from Peter Ings to £895 from JW Young & Son. Yearling heifers wanted to £535 from the Newth family.

Angus (271) The Angus trade really coming alive and generally dearer over the past few sales. Small dairy x weaned calves saw tremendous bidding and were sold to a competitive trade. Hard Angus x Holstein Steers (12mo) often over £500 to top at £608 with heifers from £450 to £500. Quality suckled steers and heifers wanted with fast bidding from £802 to £855. Several good consignments received outstanding bidding from the larger company of buyers wanting well bred feeding cattle. Prices ranged from £1,005 from Mrs S Lloyd-Harris, £1,078 from Dave Carnell, £1,100 from Brian Trott, £1,110

from St Giles Farms Ltd to £1,190 from Peter Ross, RJ & AL Doggrell and Richard Wyatt. Well done to all for presenting quality cattle. Angus heifers a flying trade for all grades.

Younger heifers to an outstanding £865 (11mo) from Tom and Ann Rossiter.

Forward heifers sold well from £950 from JW Young & Son, £962 from Dave and Emma Carnell, £970 from Richard Wyatt, £998 from BJ Singleton to £1022 from CR Thayer.

Friesians (213) A good selection on offer with a premium for the farm assured cattle clearly evident. Younger steers generally to £350 and forward yearlings just breaking £500. Young steers with potential to £585 from Bill Craig. Older steers (16-20mo) a faster trade from £705 to £765. Deeper bodied types wanted from £800 from North Buckham Farm, £805 from David and Andrew Fry, £835 from RJ & AL Doggrell Ltd, £840 from Graham Spiller to £885 from Alan and Graham Bowerman. Forward steers from £898 to £905 from St Giles Farms Ltd and £918 from Peter Ross. Top honours to Brian Trott for his framed steers from £892 to £942.

SEDGEMOOR Saturday September 14 Six market records set, and a record calf entry; 159 dairy cows and heifers, from a new maximum number of 30 different vendors. On a day of records a further record was set, when 16 sold over £2,000. Top price was £2,220 for a non pedigree 2 year old heifer from Mr FE Luff, who had 2 further non pedigree heifers at £2,050 (x2) giving him a healthy £2,106 average. Other leading

prices were £2,160, £2,140 and £2,040 from Ricky Popham; £2,120, £2,100 and £2,060 from Alan Whitcombe; £2,080 and £2,000 from Mr AP Ractliffe; £2,020 from Messrs RL & ME Trott; £2,020 from Messrs CB Powell & Son and Messrs J & H Snook; £2,000 from Messrs M & K Churchill & Son. 1st quality heifers averaged £2,054 also a record. A Market record for a Brown Swiss heifer was also set at £2,120 from Mr R Webb. Best-quality cows forward sold to £1,510 and £1,300 from Mr HMV

Weeks. Trade remains difficult for the second quality.

A record entry of 72 youngstock included a consignment of yearlings and incalf heifers from Bampfield Farms, Barnstaple. Incalvers to £1,350 (six months in calf). Yearlings and older to £820 and £800. Other bullers to £820 x 2 from Mr CE Veysey. Shorthorn cross yearlings to £450 from Andy Neill Farm services. Heifer calves to £240 from Messrs AJ & RG Barber.

Store cattle, stirks, suckler & graz-

Becky Ricards Small It’s worth taking a regular look at the way in which you run your farm or estate and any succession considerations to ensure you have structured things to your best advantage.

With farms and agricultural estates in particular, a huge advantage can be obtained by holding assets until death and only then passing them to a chosen beneficiary or into trust. Making transfers by will works well because of the ability to claim 100 per cent relief from inheritance tax on their value as agricultural or business property. There is also no capital gains tax to pay on any

growth in value of the land during lifetime.

A will can be put together quickly and provides a safety net even if the plan is later to deal with assets by lifetime transfers.

Trusts and holding control Within a family, there will often be a division of responsibilities between different generations which, over time, passes from one generation to the next. Sometimes it will not be clear who is the right family member to take on ownership of land or the business. In both these circumstances, some degree of transfer of owner-

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PICTURE: DAVID HARGRAVE ing cows (1,133) Store cattle & grazing cows (738) An increased entry of 738 strong stores, part of 1,133 with the stirks, met a widening trade between the best and particularly third-quality types. Best forward cattle were an excellent trade to £1,445 for some superb 18/19m FA Charolais feeding steers from Mr PJ Betty, Othery who sold others 16/19m at £1,330, 16/18m Limousin steers at £1,345, 15/18m Blue steers at £1,285 and 17/24m Limousin steers at £1,190. Oth-

er forward Charolais steers (23/24m) from Mr NR Huxter sold well at £1348, when 24m Limousin steers from the same farm achieved £1,228. Other Limousin steers at £1,330 (overage) Mr J Wakely, Chard; £1,215 (17/21m & FA) Messrs DL & JM Bray & Son, Knowstone; £1,180 (27/28m & FA) Messrs Adams & Sons, Forton; £1,135 (19m & FA) Messrs LJ & MW Bickle & Son, Bridestowe; £1,100 (18/21m) Mr EFB Hill & Son, Bridgwater and £1,080 (21/22m) Mr P Norman, Upton. Sim-

mental steers peaked at £1,300 (22m & FA) from Mr NG Biffen, Wellington.

Others £1,295 (17/18m) £1,230 (16m) and £1,200 (17m) Messrs BJ Stephens & Sons, Weston-super-Mare; £1250 (16/17m) £1,150 (17m) and £1,095 (16m) Treswallen Farms, Truro; £1,225 (22/23m & FA) and £1,060 (22/23m) Messrs PT Bale & Son, Chard; £1,115 (24/26m) Mr A Burland, Spaxton and £1,080 (27/28m & FA) Mr JD Cantam, Okehampton. Other Charolais steers (21/23m) at £1200, Mr DW Parris,

Where there’s a will there’s a way for the future ship, with or without control, can still be made before death often through the use of a trust or farming partnership.

Trusts may be ones that try to secure continued ownership of farmland for the benefit of a family and can involve a farm being held and managed as one holding but for the benefit of a wider family grouping (for instance if brothers and sisters need financial support out of the one family business).

Lifetime trusts can be used to allow transfer of value away from the current generation much earlier and may even be used to allow assets to pass

down two generations before grandchildren are old enough.

The future of agricultural and business property relief from inheritance tax, or the availability of such relief for particular assets, is uncertain, so lifetime giving can be used to buy into this relief, even if the relief disappear before the owner’s death.

A family partnership may also allow the splitting of control and the regulated transfer of managementwhile maintaining inheritance tax reliefs for both generations. Other possibilities for potential tax benefits include the incorpor-

ation of the business or the introduction of a corporate partner into an existing partnership.

Partner Becky Ricards Small works closely with Withy King’s residential property, farms and estates team. For advice on wills, tax planning and estate management, contact Becky on 01225 730100 or send an email to becky.ricards-small@withyking.co.uk

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Axminster and £1,130 (20m) Mr AR & Mrs JL Denning, Bridgwater. Amongst the longer term “far ming” cattle, it was the Charolais which held up the best. Other Blue steers also to £1,200 (16m & FA) Mr J Turner, Umberleigh. £1200 was also bid for a 25m and FA Limousin from Mr CG Carbin, Compton Dundon.

Farming cattle easier to buy and poor conformation types and those which were showing the signs of having had a hard year were hard to sell.

Native steers topped at £1,265 for 26/28m and FA Angus from Mr CJ Chant, Bower Hinton. Other Angus steers at £1,240 (23/27m & FA) from Mr GG Dyer, Chard. Hereford steers (21/22m & FA) at £1,200 from Messrs PG & VA House, Bridport; £1,180 (27m) Messrs ED & RL Pike, Stockland; £1160 (28m & FA) bull, Messrs SR & L Hutchings, Donyatt. Very smart 16/17m South Devons from Messrs LE & Walters & Son, Broadhembury shot to £1,145.

Dairy steers sold to £1,055 for a good type Montbeliarde (20m & FA) from Messrs MD & GJ Curtis, Crediton.

Holsteins at £975 from both Mr RH Beaty, Street (24m) and Mr N Herrod, Hawkchurch (24/26m & FA).

Heifers topped at £1,255 for a strong 25m & FA Simmental from Messrs WJ & KL Dart, Bishops Nympton, who sold others younger (19/20m) at £1070. £1190 was bid for a well fleshed Simmental (28m & FA) from Messrs WR Adams & Son, Chard. A good Charolais heifer (22m) from Mr DW Parris rose to £1,170.

Strong feeding Charolais heifers from Mr NR Huxter (22/24m) sold well at £1,150. A well covered Blue (23m) from Mrs P Bungay, Bradworthy returned at £1,135. Younger heifers at £1,065 (16/17m & FA) Simmentals, Treswallen Farms, Truro; £1,060 (15m & FA) Limousin, Mr MJ & Mrs MW Bickle & Son, Bridestowe and £1,055 (18m) Limousin Mr EFB Hill & Son. Native heifers peaked at £1090 for 26/27m and FA Angus from Mr CJ Chant, Bower Hinton, who sold another at £1,015. Best young steers to £1065 for 14/17m pure Limousins from Mr WJ Bown, who also sold 15/17m similar heifers at £985. A 15m red Limousin steer from Mr PG Green, Corfe Castle met a call of £1,060. Super 15/16m Blonde bulls from Mr NM & Mrs CL Norris, Holford rose to £1060. £1050 was bid for a 15m Limousin from Mr MJ & Mrs MW Bickle & Son, Bridestowe.

Suckler cows, calves, stock bulls (2) Small entry of one cow and calf being a Hereford (03.04) with Limousin heifer calf (14.06.13) at foot sold at £620.

Stirks & busk calves (378) Numbers begin to grow unlike the grass. A solid trade for the best, when more selective bidding was made for plainer types. Few quality bullocks forward when the best sold to £880 for an 11 month old Aberdeen Angus steer from Mrs P Bungay, well done. Other noteable entries were a lovely run of British Blue steers from Messrs RJ & PJ Northover (8-10m) which made up to £820 (x2) and also £820 for a Charolais steer (9m) an excellent run as always.

Limousin steers (6-10m) from Mr B Jeffery achieved £815 (x2) and an impressive consignment of blacks from Messrs D & P Pengelly made £780 (8m) and £735 (8m) for steers and £680 for an 8m heifer. Few quality Simmentals forward when the best sold to £670 again from Mr B Jeffery. Heifers topped at £705 for a Limousin from Mr A & P Bradford (12m). Others to £700 (x2) from Mr JG Lewis. Charolais to £675 from Messrs BC & PK Matthews and British Blues to £675 (x2) from Mr J Turner. A good show of Friesians forward met a fitting trade, £390 for the best and many £300-£350 (10m).

NON-EXPORT CALVES (683) Beef Breeds (429) Largest entry for 20 years. Bulls to £468 & heifers to £360. The most beef calves for many a year met a very solid trade when buyers stayed right to the end and quality calves were well sought throughout. Top-price continental bulls at £468 for a Blue from Messrs FGC & E Tucker, Wedmore. Simmentals to £465 from Holmwood Farm Ltd. Other Blues £465 (x2). Charolais £450, Limousins £445. The top bulls £340-£400 but many more bulls in the medium class at £250-£320, still a fair price.

Smaller bulls from £180-£250. Quality heifers extremely firm when Blues sold to £360 (x2) £355. Simmentals to £352 and many good heifers over £300, mediums from £220, especially Blues which were more numerous. Strong demand for the best native breeds when Angus bulls sold to £378 from Messrs FGC & E Tucker; £350 Farmway Farm; £328 from Mr LC Curtis and heifers to £190 from Messrs H & M Lee

& Sons; £170 from Messrs RJ & MA Curtis but plainer types more selective.

Hereford bulls to £408, superb calf from Mr ANJ Grey, Thornbury. Others £360, £325 and heifers £238 from Mr MA Bowditch.

SHEEP (3642) Store Lambs (2028) A larger entry sold to a similar trade despite the recent easing off in fat lamb prices. The best were again £65 plus and sold to £77.50 from Mr M Taylor. Others to £75 and £71 from Mr J White; £72.50 from Mr RF Cornish; £70 from Mr D Hunt; £69.50 from Mr JDT Hill; £67 from Messrs JH & SA Denbee and Mr GM Veysey; £66.50 (x3) from Mr P Judah; £66 from Mr GM Veysey and Mr GTJ Frappell and £65.50 from Mr MT Prosser. Mediums ranged £50-£60 and small mainly £30 plus. Overall average £52.32.

Grazing Ewes & Rams (1090) A slightly easier trade to a top of £96 from Mr R Ashbrook, who sold others to £91, £88.50, £88 and £82.50. Others to £90 from Messrs JH & SA Denbee; £87.50 from Messrs AC & D Grossey; £87 from Mr AJ Hann; £85 from Messrs J & R Stanbury; £78 from Messrs GJ & SM Down and Mr R Ashbrook; £75.50 from Messrs EJ Browse & Son and Messrs F & M House & Son; £75 from Messrs S & J Willis; £74.50 from Mr DW Olive and £74 from Messrs AC & D Grossey. Mediums ranged £45-£70 and plain £25-£45.

Overall average £47.84.

Breeding Ewes (378) A much larger entry sold to another selective trade.

Top price of £116 went to Mrs S Cameron for pedigree Zwartble ewe lambs.

Beltex cross 2T’s from Mr M Rowe sold at £115. Zwartble cross 2T’s from Messrs J & SM Rowland & Sons sold at £110. Lleyn 2T’s from Mr R Longland made £100, which was matched for Texel cross 2T’s from Messrs PA & DE Wyatt and Mr J Moyse. Suffolk cross 2T’s from Hallam Estate to £90.

Stock Rams (146) A huge entry sold to a solid trade throughout, when the very best sold to a real premium. Top of the day was £420, achieved by both Messrs FH Chave & Son for their 2T Texel and Messrs Seafield Pedigrees for a Suffolk ram lamb, who also sold a shearling for £400. Messrs Chave also realised £350 for a Texel 2T. Leading the Charollais was Mr J Harding at £330 (x3). Pedigree Blue Faced Leicesters sold well to £320 from Messrs MJ & MD Day. Lleyns to £300 for a shearling again from Messrs Chave.

South West multi-breed show & sale of pedigree native beef cattle A short entry for the Autumn South West Multi Breed Show and Sale of Pedigree Native Beef Cattle topped at £2,100.00 for a June 2012 born Hereford bull, Greenyards 1 Johno (P) from regular vendors Mr PJ & Mrs AC Allman of Herefordshire. On the female side a highlight was a major reduction of Dexters from Mr & Mrs M Carter & Family, which topped at £399.00 for 2003 born Salvator Lavender, with heifer calf Haineshill Lucy at foot.

Mid West longhorn breeders production sale Good interest as ever and bidding to £777 for a June 2009 bull, Peck Jolly from Mr CG Jones of Newton Abbot.

Others to £714.00 for an April 12 heifer, Underknoll Tara from Mr AP & Mrs PJ Neads of Brent Knoll.

Dispersal of the Saxon herd of pedigree Charolais The Saxon herd of Charolais cattle from Martin, Susan and Chris Conley drew a large crowd from the South West, Wales and even Northern Ireland. Most had calves at foot by Saxon Etigny, which again displayed great shape and it was Etigny who topped the sale at £5,500, returning to South Devon to a commercial herd.

Females peaked at £2,940 for French bred Saxon Cocarde, 2007 born with a super April bull calf Saxon Indre at foot, s bought by Mr S & Mrs D Vooght of Exeter. Close by at £2,887 was Saxon Colleen, sold with a January-born bull calf to Mr NP Donaghy of Co Tyrone. A tremendous outfit, Balbithan Bonbon with an Indurain sired January bull calf, Saxon Igny, at foot, also sold to Mr Donoghy at £2,310. He also bought Saxon Faune with Travel-sired February Saxon Indigo bull calf at foot for £2,100.

Saxon Creme, sold with heifer Saxon Icecream at £2,205 to Mr CJ Clifford & Son of Newton Abbot and Saxon Bijou with April-born heifer Saxon Isis, which sold for £2,100 to Mr DP & Mrs B Smith & Son of Monmouth. All cows with bull calves averaged £1,899.95 with heifer calves £1,723.62. In calf £1,120. In-calf heifers £1,438.50 to £1,491 and maiden heifers £987 to £1,680.

Today West Country Layers’ Association Evening Conference on animal health, Padbrook Park, Cullompton, 6pm. Details: 07966 655 8386 23 Institute of Agricultural Secretaries and Administrators training day, Westpoint, Exeter. 01926 485543 24 Dispersal sale by Greenslade Taylor Hunt of Stourvale Herd at Higher Farm, Manston, Sturminster Newton, Dorset.

25 AHDB Crop Research Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. Details: 024 7647 8724 27 Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust’s supper and speaker evening with illustrated talk on agriculture in The Gambia. Fingle Glen Golf Club and Hotel, Tedburn St Mary, 7pm. Details: 01404 812602.

Quota Milk Average wholesale price (4.00% butterfat, for 2013/2014 quota): clean 0.20ppl, used 0.20ppl.

Entitlements 2014 season price: Non-SDA £190-£200 per hectare. 2013 season average price: Non-SDA £213 per hectare; SDA £190 per hectare, moorland £39.60 per hectare Naked Acres 2013 hosting and letting season-average price: Non-SDA £49 per acre; SDA £35 per acre; Moorland £7 per acre Townsend Chartered Surveyors, Exeter, (01392 823935) and www.townsendchartered surveyors.co.uk

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Show reveals the reality of harvest time Anthony Gibson Even if, like me, you’re not a fan of Greg Wallace, last week’s series of Harvest programmes on BBC Two provided a welltimed and very welcome reminder of just why a good harvest is still something to be celebrated by the whole community.

The featured farms were by no means typical: a vast arable enterprise in East Anglia, one of the biggest vegetable growers in Lincolnshire, cherries being grown in 30 miles of polytunnels in Herefordshire and a state-of-the-art tomato business in Kent.

The farmers concerned made no bones about the scale of the investment on view.

There was “a million quid’s worth of kit” in one enormous potato field, a £250,000 selfsteer combine, a 25-acre glasshouse producing 50,000kg of

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Greg Wallace hosted BBC2’s Harvest, which revealed the scale of today’s crop production tomatoes a week in the depths of winter and a broccoli harvesting, cleaning, packing and labelling combo which its owner described, without exaggeration, as a factory in a field.

More than once, I found myself wondering how all of this hi-tech, satellite-guided, polythene-protected, megascale vision of modern British farming would play with a consuming public more used to being bombarded with sepiatinted images harking back to the 1930s. For once, even on the BBC, organics didn’t get a look in. But on reflection, I think they got it just about right. The farming industry might as well be straight with its con-

sumers about how crops are grown in the 21st century, even down to the almost total reliance on Eastern Europeans for its labour force, which was another striking feature of the three programmes.

Efficient crop production is something to be proud of, even if it does involve sprays, fertilisers, gigantic machines and a great many Bulgarians. That is the reality. It is what enables farmers and growers to provide consumers with a year-round supply of top-quality, homegrown fruit and vegetables at an affordable price.

There was nothing particularly questioning or controversial about the programmes.

The approach was matter of fact, to the extent that, once or twice, they took on the character almost of an old-fashioned public information film, interspersed with excerpts from an O-level biology class.

But the message which came through loud and clear was that harvest matters, not just to farmers, but to everyone, and it did no harm at all for that to be re-stated and underlined.

This has, in truth, been a remarkable cereal harvest.

Not in the sense of breaking records – although someone in Lincolnshire has achieved a new UK record wheat yield of 14.31 tonnes per hectare – but in the fact that it has been so vastly better than anyone could possibly have imagined, given the disruption to autumn and winter cultivations and the damage to soil structure caused by the deluges of 2012.

Grain quality has been particularly striking. Hagbergs (a measure of milling quality) are the highest they’ve been since 1990, while so much barley has made the grade for malting that more than half of it will be surplus to requirements and will have to go for feed, not that many livestock farmers will be complaining about that.

Grain prices are down, of course, not so much because of the harvest here, as thanks to heavy crops in most of the world’s key cereal-producing areas. But I’m glad to say that no one on Harvest was complaining about that.

Pity we didn’t see anyone from the West Country on the programmes, because while we may not have quite the scale of East Anglia, we’ve still got plenty of top-class arable farms and, in Cornwall especially, some of the most efficient vegetable growers in the country. Perhaps next year.

Anthony Gibson is a freelance writer and may be contacted at anthony.gbsn@googlemail.com

Memories of war bring rural trilogy to end Peter Hall Here’s an everyday story of country folk. No, not the Archers, the Landrys.

Sisters Honor Quick and Virginia Landry have produced the third of a trilogy of books about their farming family from St Agnes, traditionally a mining, fishing and resort community on the North Cornwall coast.

An intriguing and very personal record, all three books chronicle the life and times of the Landry family, not just matters agricultural but a whole swathe of experiences of rural life throughout the 20th century.

This last book, Our Living Memories, begins with the greeting “duratha whye”, which means “good day to you” in Cornish – but that’s almost as far as the native tongue extends (which is fortunate for most of us).

This third tome recalls the Second World War and how it affected the community, the people who came and went as a result of the conflict, the army camp on New Downs above St Agnes Head and two RAF air-

‘The little stories about wartime exigencies will chime with many who lived through those years’

Attentive and a study of concentration, Ruby rounds up some Toulouse geese in the main ring at the Frome Agricultural and Cheese Show at the weekend PICTURE: FRAN STOTHARD

Burger sales are on a roll for butcher Grandmother June Harris came away with more than she had bargained for after calling into her favourite butcher’s shop to pick up some burgers. She found herself being presented with a bottle of Cornish sparkling wine after buying the 100,000th beefburger Somerset butcher Malcolm Pyne has sold since the horse meat scandal erupted. Malcolm started totting up sales at his £1 million store in North Petherton, near Bridgwater, when the first stories emerged in January of horse meat being discovered in supermarket burgers.

‘I knew from the start something was up because we immediately had a surge of new customers who were deserting the supermarkets in favour of a traditional butcher,’ he said PICTURE: STEVE GUSCOTT

fields, at Nancekuke, Portreath and Trevellas, Perranporth. Every morning at the army camp a Hawker Henley aeroplane would pull a large red drogue behind it for firing practice with quick-firing antiaircraft guns. And there were Typhoons and Spitfires at the airfields which practiced aerial gunnery.

The authors have borrowed the reminiscences of Peter Lewis, who came to Chapel Porth in 1943 when he was 15 and kept a diary, a useful memory aid 70 years later.

The little stories about wartime exigencies – fresh milk straight from the cow, rations supplemented by local mushrooms, blackberries and rabbits, dark evenings lit by paraffin lamps spent playing cards and chatting – will chime with many who lived through those years. How times have changed.

Peter Landry, the authors’ father, farmed at Chapel Porth and is described as the archetypal Cornish farmer: “a flat cap to one side, a hunched stance, and arms and elbows sticking out from years of stooking hay and other hard work.”

Honor and Virginia are known to thousands of visitors to the popular surfing cove of Chapel Porth, as they run the car park in a field at the top of Chapel Coombe. Their books are available from Billy Roberts’ Cornwall Café in St Agnes, priced at £5.

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Chris Rundle

More red tape

Whole sector is the target Having already resorted to intimidating staff working at commercial shoots and – apparently – to leaving gates open in order to allow farmers’ livestock to get out, the badger-huggers, it seems, are now going to any lengths to discredit any activity associated with farming.

Thus the screaming headline: “No bio-security at largest livestock market in SW England” appearing on one of their websites as the tag to an “undercover investigation” allegedly carried out at Sedgemoor Auction Centre.

Or perhaps that should be “Sedgemore”, the spelling favoured by the anti-cull campaigners whose knowledge of place names appears to be as sketchy as their acquaintance with the laws of libel.

The site offers some shaky clips, apparently captured with a mobile phone camera, of activities at the market where, so the text puts it, “cows are clearly distressed”.

As to the allegation of no bio-security most of the page is taken up with the reproduction of a chunk of Defra biosecurity guidelines under the bland assertion: “Nearly all the guidelines/rules/regulations were broken.”

No detailed account of who, what, when, where, why and how, no balancing statement from the auctioneers or the market building’s owner. Just a sweeping, unsubstantiated assertion clearly designed to denigrate anyone and everyone associated with the place.

Let’s just make one thing clear. Sedgemoor Auction Centre is not merely the newest but the most welfarefriendly operation of its kind in Britain. It has been designed with bio-security very much in mind. It is operated perfectly correctly and in accordance with every last rule in the book.

It is also highly policed by RSPCA and Trading Standards officials. It has inspectors like a dog has fleas, or a toad warts. It has not, insofar as I am aware, been labelled by any authority or responsible person as a hotbed of animal cruelty or a place where biosecurity is appallingly lax.

But of course those who believe themselves to be sufficiently highly qualified as to tell farmers how to run their businesses know better. Were I operating the market I should have something to say about this and, indeed, would already be in deep discussion with my legal team. Yet this is only one further example of the arrogant disregard for the law displayed by a deluded bunch of single-interest fanatics who are clearly prepared to go to any lengths to blacken the name of anyone who might have the remotest connection with the operation to rid the countryside of diseased and highly infectious badgers.

Sedgemoor Auction Centre is not merely the newest but the most welfare-friendly operation of its kind in Britain, says Chris Rundle It is, in other words, precisely the kind of tactic we have now come to expect from a lobby whose members not only display the most woeful ignorance of rural affairs but who refuse to acknowledge the truth about badgers and TB. But then, as my dear, late mother-in-law was so fond of putting it, what do you expect from a pig but a grunt?

A menace on two wheels Intelligence arrives by the afternoon stage from deep, dark and mysterious Exmoor where the locals are under siege. The beauty of the national park is, it appears, being despoiled on an almost daily basis by a never-ending shower of energy drink containers discarded by cyclists.

Having reinvigorated themselves – or at least consumed a liquid which claims to have that effect – they choose to cast the empties towards the nearest hedge, in the majority of instances, missing the target with the result that the article ends up on the verge or indeed the road, it seems.

One of my informants says she cannot bear to see the area so disfigured and thus interrupts her journey every time she spots a dumped container so she can pick it up and dispose of it properly – but is getting rather tired of doing so.

Step forward, then, another group who appear to be a law unto themselves (see above).

Hereabouts they string out into long skeins on a Sunday

morning rendering it impossible on these narrow, twisting roads for anyone else to get past them for miles.

Where cycle tracks have been provided (at enormous expense to the taxpayer) to run alongside the main carriageway these are studiously ignored: presumably it is somehow infra dig for a “serious”, Lycra-clad cyclist to be seen on them.

I have started a campaign to re-educate these people, pulling alongside and offering, via the open passenger side window, robustly-worded advice as to their correct placement on the highway – though they rarely appear to agree with my opinion or, indeed, act upon my suggestion.

I get the feeling the entire cycling community is moving towards the militancy now witnessed in the London cyclist, his back bent under the

The beauty of the Exmoor national park is, it appears, being despoiled on an almost daily basis by a never-ending shower of energy drink containers discarded by cyclists

enormous weight of the huge chip on his shoulder, his eyes focused on the middle distance, his face contorted into a snarl. To witness one of these having a contretemps with a car or taxi or bus driver after some unscheduled juxtaposition is one of the best of the many kinds of free entertainment the capital affords.

Which is very well if the cycling classes didn’t take the view that the traffic laws are only for motorised transport.

One of them was even suggesting in an article last week that cyclists should be allowed to ignore red lights in certain circumstances – an act of recklessness which the courts would doubtless take into account were any accident to arise as a result of it.

On particular example of traffic management which cyclists routinely ignore is the pedestrian crossing, the idea of any pedestrian having any rights superior to theirs evidently being anathema to them.

I have lost count of the number of times I have come close to being mown down on one particular crossing on the King’s Road I use frequently whenever I am visiting family, and so have decided to equip myself with an appropriate means of defence before I venture up again.

It’s a shepherd’s crook. Next time a cyclist ignores my right of free and unhindered passage I shall deploy it. If I can’t shove the sharp end between the spokes of his front wheel I shall secure a firm grasp on his neck with the other, either approach having the potential to halt his forward progress in satisfactorily abrupt fashion.

Only ministers really know what genuine progress has been made in reducing the huge burden of red tape that has engulfed farmers in recent years. But certainly as far as most farmers are concerned there is little, if any, sign of the wholesale cleansing of the stables that was promised in the wake of Richard Macdonald’s report.

If anything, things are actually getting worse. Take the waste regulations which emerged, all shiny from their new plating of gold, from the Government a few years ago.

They were drawn up by Brussels under the general heading of environment protection and originally covered a huge range of operations, many of them routinely carried out on farms.

Farmers were therefore obliged to register for exemptions, but were assured this would actually be a one-off exercise – and naively took Defra’s word for it.

Sadly and almost inevitably that has now proved to be the case.

The legislation has changed and the list of controlled operations extended – to include

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Unless they do they could find themselves unable to carry out a host of routine activities – or fined if they do.

They only have until the end of this month to register but only 27,000 have, leaving 38,000 still to complete the registration.

And although this was a relatively straightforward task first time round, Defra’s civil servants evidently believed that to be a less than satisfactory situation.

So not only have new activities been added to the list but the registration process has been made hideously more complex: in some cases it is taking days to complete. So how, precisely, does this square with the Government’s pledge to start making life less complicated for the all-important producers of the nation’s food?

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Frome Show results – Cattle classes FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Wisteria Sulton Golden Rule; 2: Dowding, Miss Josie – Coomber Envoys Royalty 32 Class 506 – Heifer in Milk 1: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria Sultan Georgina; 2: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria King Snowfern; 3: Dowding, Miss Josie – Vagg Juno Dilwyn Class 507 – Junior Cow in Milk not having calved more than twice 1: Parfitt, S & L – Morebridge Jevons Bond Class 508 – Senior Cow in Milk, having calved 3 times or more 1: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria Valentine Graceful Class 509 – Pair of Animals 1: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria King Snowfern; 2: Parfitt, S & L; 3: Dowding, Miss Josie – Vagg Juno Dilwyn GUERNSEY Judge: Mr Colin Gleed – Berkshire Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion Guernsey Champion: Durbin, Mr & Mrs M C – Bickfield Venessa 37; Reserve Champion: Durbin, Mr & Mrs M C – Bickfield Titiana II Class 510 – Calf under 6 months 1: Adams, B & SV – Hinton Romany Nancy; 2: Tregallant Guernseys – Tregallant Prince Lady; 3: Tregallant Guernseys – Tregallant Benbows Pheobe Class 511 – Calf over 6 months but not over 12 months 1: Durbin, Mr & Mrs M C – Bickfield Linda 68; 2: Adams, B & SV – Trewey Prince Poppy 26; 3: Adams, B & SV – Trewey Andante Jackie 52 Class 512 – Maiden Heifer over 12 months 1: Tregallant Guernseys – Tregallant Joker Princess Beatrix Class 513 – Heifer in calf 1: Addington Fund – Hamps Valley Annabelle 7; 2: Adams, B & SV – Wiltown Claudia Class 514 – Cow in-calf and dry 1: Durbin, Mr & Mrs M C – Bickfield Lisa 16; 2: Tregallant Guernseys – Tregallant Elizabeth Class 515 – Heifer in milk to have had her first calf when under 3 years old 1: Durbin, Mr & Mrs MC – Bickfield Liz 16; 2: Tregallant Guernseys – Tregallant Ezekiel Aftergold Class 516 – Junior Cow in milk not having calved more than twice 1: Durbin, Mr & Mrs MC – Bickfield Titiana II Class 517 – Senior Cow in milk having calved three times or more 1: Durbin, Mr & Mrs MC – Bickfield Venessa 37; 2: Tregallant Guernseys – Tregallant Clarkia Class 518 – Pair of Animals property of the same exhibitor 1: Adams, B & SV; 2: Durbin, Mr & Mrs M C; 3: Tregallant Guernseys; 4: Tregallant Guernseys OTHER RECOGNISED DAIRY BREED Judge: Dawn Coryn – Newquay Class 528 – Calf under 6 months 1: Mannerings, F R – Speckles Darling 2 INTERBREED DAIRY CATTLE Judge: Mr Colin Gleed – Berkshire Class 537 – Heifer in-calf 1: Parfitt, S & L – Scotsbridge Aster; 2: Selway, Miss Sunny – Riggiston Cobalt Krawler Class 538 – Cow in-calf and dry 1: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria Sulton Golden Rule; 2: Dowding, Miss Josie – Coomber Envoys Royalty 32; 3: Elmes, Miss C – Crystal Baxter Belle 3 Class 539 – Heifer in Milk, to have had her first calf when under 3 years old 1: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria Sultan Georgina; 2: Elmes, Miss C – Swallowdale Baxter Domino 2; 3: Dowding, Miss Josie – Vagg Juno Dilwyn; 4: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria King Snowfern; 5: Parfitt, S & L – Ruckhall Forbidden Peach Class 540 – Junior cow in milk, not having calved more than twice 1: Rockett & T Marshall, L – Greenway Phobie; 2: Parfitt, S & L – Wiltor Million Cream; 3: Parfitt, S & L – Richtop DJ May Donny Class 541 – Senior Cow in milk, having calved three times or more 1: Durbin, Mr & Mrs M C – Bickfield Venessa 37; 2: Rockett T & Marshall, L – Greenway Shamrock; 3: Wadman, Mrs Jean – Wisteria Valentine Graceful DEXTER Judge: Mr P Martin – Kent Class CH – Champion Dexter Champion: Reed, Mr & Mrs AA & KM – Whitestone Phoenix; Reserve Champion: Tooloos Dexters – Langley End Morisia Class 543 – Cow in Milk 1: Tooloos Dexters – Langley End Morisia; 2: Hunt, JA – Saltaire Lyra; 3: Mitchell, Mr & Mrs T J – Niddons Roxanne; 4: Galloway, Mr D – Marstone Jasmine; 5: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Knightsway Grace Class 544 – Dry Cow 1: Bennett, Mr JD – Cannington Jewel; 2: Reed, Mr & Mrs AA & KM – Whitestone Hazel; 3: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Buryhill Maisie Rose; 4: Bradbury , Mrs C – Puddlebridge Primrose; 5: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Honeycombe Daisy Class 545 – Calf under 10 months 1: Salter, Mrs Sally – La Roche Valentine; 2: Hunt, JA – Saltaire Leo; 3: Mitchell, Mr & Mrs T J – Niddons Rambo; 4: Tooloos Dexters – Tooloos

Aubrietia; 5: Sealey, Mrs C – Furlong Drago Class 546 – Heifer between 10 months and 20 months 1: Hunt, JA – Saltaire Walnut 2; 2: Tooloos Dexters – Tooloos Lisianthus; 3: Mitchell, Mr & Mrs T J – Niddons Sheree; 4: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Buryhill Melody; 5: Sealey, Mrs C – Furlong Hannah Class 547 – Heifer over 20 months 1: Laing , Mrs M P – Templeton Solita; 2: Sharpe, Miss Kim – Grove Goldilocks; 3: Sharpe, Miss Kim – Gaveston Moonstone; 4: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Buryhill Roseanne; 5: Hunt, JA – Saltaire Williams; 6: Cobden, Sally Ann – Northbrook Corn Flower; 7: Galloway, Mr D – Marstone Magnolia; 8: Attwell & J Rendall, Wg – Withybrook Spice Class 548 – Heifer in milk 1: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Buryhill Phoebe; 2: Salter, Mrs Sally – La Roche Iris; 3: Loftbrook Dexters – Loftbrook Snowdrop; 4: Bristow, Miss Danielle – Withybrook Bobby JO; 5: N & S Glover – Niddons Smartie Class 549 – Junior Bull over 30 months old 1: Reed, Mr & Mrs A A & K M – Whitestone Phoenix; 2: Hunt, JA – Saltaire Plodan; 3: Loftbrook Dexters – Loftbrook Mccoy; 4: Attwell & J Rendall, Wg – Wengar Brigadier Class 550 – Senior Bull over 30 months 1: Cambridge, Mr Barry – Buryhill Little Jack; 2: Bennett, Mr JD – Cannington Churchill Class 551 – Pair of females property of same exhibitor 1: Bennett, Mr JD; 2: Tooloos Dexters; 3: Laing , Mrs M P; 4: Bradbury , Mrs C; 5: Sealey, Mrs C; 6: Salter, Mrs Sally; 7: Cambridge, Mr Barry; 8: Reed, Mr & Mrs A A & K M Class 552 – Group of three property of the same exhibitor 1: Sealey, Mrs C; 2: Bennett, Mr JD; 3: Hunt, JA; 4: Cambridge, Mr Barry BEEF CATTLE Class CH – Supreme Beef Champion & Reserve Champion: Whitehouse Farm Partnership – Lim x; Reserve Champion: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde Class CH – Pedigree Beef Champion & Reserve Champion: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde; Reserve Champion: Dimond, R J – S Devon Class CH – Pedigree Native Breed Champion & Reserve Champion: Dimond, R J – S Devon; Reserve Champion: Poad, Mr & Mrs I – Devon (Ruby) Class CH – Pedigree Continental Breed Champion & Reserve Champion: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde; Reserve Champion: Wylde, Mr John – Charolais HEREFORD Judge: Mr R McInnes, Norfolk Class CH – Champion Hereford Champion: Mitchell, RA – Lanscombe 1 Oh No; Reserve Champion: Mitchell, RA – Lanscombe 1 Oruney Class 556 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Nicholashayne Herefords – Nicholashayne 1 Kyte; 2: Nicholashayne Herefords – Nicholashayne 1 Kittiwake; 3: Mitchell, RA – Lanscombe 1 Caty Class 557 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Christopher, Mr Thomas – Shaston 1 Landsley Class 558 – Bull under 24 Months 1: Mitchell, Ra – Lanscombe 1 Oh NO; 2: Mitchell, RA – Lanscombe 1 Oruney; 3: Mitchell, RA – Lanscombe 1 Oliver Class 559 – Bull over 24 Months 1: Bigwood, Graham – Westwood Fearless Class 560 – Pair of Animals 1: Mitchell, RA; 2: Nicholashayne Herefords ABERDEEN ANGUS Judge: Mr Alan Bishop ñ Berkshire Class CH – Champion Aberdeen Angus Champion: Frain, Mr and Mrs P – Allabury Proudly Irresistible J009; Reserve Champion: Sayer, Mr Jake C – Sayers Lady Jelly Class B – Best Animal Bred by exhibitor Winner – Frain, Mr and Mrs P – Allabury Proudly Irresistible J009 Class 561 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Frain, Mr and Mrs P – Allabury Proudly Irresistible J009; 2: Kirk, GE & AG – Hinton Eastern Princess; 3: Sayer, Mr Jake C – Allabury Lady Jane Class 562 – Calf under 6 months 1: Sayer, Mr Jake C – Sayers Lady Jelly; 2: Edmunds, A – Cosmore Nancy; 3: Frain, Mr and Mrs P Class 563 – Calf 6-12 Months 1: Frain, Mr and Mrs P – Allabury Proud Irrianna N001 Class 565 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Kirk, GE & AG – Hinton Kind Princess; 2: Sayer, Mr Jake C – Sayers Eveningstar Class 566 – Bull under 24 months 1: Edmunds, A – Cosmore Merlin Boy; 2: Edmunds, A – Cosmore Maverick Boy Class 568 – Pair of Animals 1: Kirk, GE & AG – Cosmore Maverick Boy; 2: Edmunds, A; 3: Edmunds, A BEEF SHORTHORN Judge: Mr Alan Bishop – Berkshire Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion Beef Shorthorn Champion: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Bundaberg Crocus; Reserve Champion: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill

1: Blackwell, Lucy – Irish Moiled; 2: Mann, Mr & Mrs R – Sussex; 3: Tanner, Susan – Red Poll Class 611 – Calf under 6 months 1: Tanner, Susan – Red Poll; 2: Blackwell, Lucy – Irish Moiled Class 612 – Calf 6 -12 months 1: Tanner, Susan – Red Poll Class 613 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Mann, Mr & Mrs R – Sussex; 2: Bunning, Mrs A – Riggit Galloway; 3: Clarke , Mr & Mrs – Red Poll; 4: Clarke , Mr & Mrs – Red Poll; 5: Tanner, Susan – Red Poll Class 614 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Clarke , Mr & Mrs – Irish Moiled; 2: Clarke , Mr & Mrs – British White Class 615 – Bull under 24 months 1: Blackwell, Lucy – Irish Moiled Class 617 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: Clarke , Mr & Mrs; 2: Tanner, Susan; 3: Mann, Mr & Mrs R

Archie Hill from Nyland with his prize-winning Quaish Beebob at the Frome Show on Saturday PICTURE: FRAN STOTHARD

MORE RESULTS FROM THE SHOW IN SATURDAY’S NEW RURAL LIFE SECTION – EVERY SATURDAY IN YOUR WESTERN DAILY PRESS Cp Lovely Class 569 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Bundaberg Crocus; 2: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Promoters Lovely; 3: Horton , C – Hannington Magic Andrea Class 570 – Calf under 6 months 1: Horton , C – Hannington Magic Guest Class 571 – Calf over 6-12 months 1: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Thrashers Crocus Class 572 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Cp Lovely; 2: Horton , C – Hannington Edith; 3: Horton , C – Hannington Finch Class 573 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill P Eva Broadhooks; 2: Horton , C – Hannington Edith Class 574 – Bull under 24 months 1: Horton , C – Hannington Egbert; 2: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Felton Class 575 – Bull over 24 months 1: Ruby, T C & A J – Ashwater Freyer Tulip; 2: Horton , C – Knockenjig Eclipse Class 576 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: Wear, Ms Brenda – Redhill Bundaberg Crocus; 2: Horton , C; 3: Ruby, T C & A J – Cairnsmore Dominator DEVON (RUBY RED) Judge: Mr Allen – Cambridgeshire Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion Devon (Ruby Red) Champion: Poad, Mr I & Mrs A – Wellshead Honeysuckle 8; Reserve Champion: Ebbesbourne Herd – Ebbesboure Matilda Class 577 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Poad, Mr & Mrs Ian and Angela – Wellshead Loveday 5 Class 578 – Calf under 6 months 1: Poad, Mr & Mrs Ian and Angela – Exmoor Lovely; 2: Telling, Mrs Deborah – Hillside Generous Jennifer 2; 3: Telling, Mrs Deborah – Hillside Bestman Class 579 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Telling, Mrs Deborah – Hillside Generous Sukey 1 Class 580 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Ebbesbourne Herd – Ebbesboure Matilda; 2: Heywood & Hurd – Whitefield Orange 204; 3: Poad, Mr & Mrs Ian and Angela – Wellshead Honeysuckle 8; 4: Telling, Mrs Deborah – Hillside Generous Jennifer 1 Class 581 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Poad, Mr I & Mrs A – Wellshead Henrietta 6; 2: H Bush & Sons – Westfields Lupin; 3: Telling, Mrs D – Hillside Beauty; 4: R L Jones & Sons – Richmond Woodbine 4 Class 582 – Bull under 24 months 1: Ebbesbourne Herd – Ebbesboure Magnate; 2: Heywood & Hurd, – Whitefield Mark My Word Class 584 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: Poad, Mr & Mrs Ian and Angela; 2: Heywood & Hurd; 3: Telling, Mrs D. SOUTH DEVON Judge: Mr M Kettlewell, Oxford Class CH – Champion South Devon Champion: Dimond, R J – Kestle Buttercup 122; Reserve Champion: Mells Park – Mells Park Bertie Class 586 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Dimond, R J – Kestle Buttercup 122; 2: Mells Park – Mells Park Ariat Class 587 – Calf under 6 months 1: Dimond, R J – Shepton Buttercup 2; 2: Mells Park – CALF; 3: Bennett, S – Dilton Vale Class 588 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Dimond, R J – Shepton Rose 1 Class 589 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Mells Park – Mells Park Elinor; 2: Dimond, R J – Shepton Buttercup 1

Class 590 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Mells Park – Mells Park Domica; 2: Dimond, R J – Shepton Pansy 1 Class 591 – Bull under 24 months 1: Bennett, S – Trevowah Maximus; 2: Mells Park – Mells Park; 3: Mells Park – Mells Park Class 592 – Bull over 24 months 1: Mells Park – Mells Park Bertie Class 593 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: Mells Park; 2: Dimond, R J; 3: Bennett, S LONGHORN Judge: Mr Peter Guest – Herefordshire Class CH – Champion Longhorn Champion: Natural England – Stoke Lupin; Reserve Champion: Natural England – Stoke Mudlark Class 594 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Gupworthy Juliet; 2: N & S Glover – Warns Melanie Class 595 – Calf under 6 months 1: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Gupworthy Noddy Class 597 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Gupworthy Mistress; 2: N & S Glover – War ns Melanie; 3: N & S Glover – War ns Maizie Class 598 – Maiden or in-calf heifer over 24 months 1: Natural England – Stoke Lupin; 2: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Gupworthy Linda Class 599 – Bull under 24 months 1: Natural England – Stoke Mudlark; 2: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Gupworthy Merlin Class 601 – Pair of animals from above classes property of the same exhibitor 1: N & S Glover – Warns Maizie; 2: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H BELTED GALLOWAY Judge: Mr M Yeandle, Dorchester Class CH – Champion Belted Galloway Champion: Galloway, Mr D – Southfield Magic Lantern; Reserve Champion: Galloway, Mr D – Southfield Crackerjack Class 602 – Cow or calved heifer over 30 months 1: Galloway, Mrs B – Steen Misty; 2: Galloway, Mrs B – Steen Milly Class 603 – Calf under 6 months 1: Galloway, Mrs B – Steen Izzy Class 604 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Bunning, Mrs Alison – Hatherland Dog Star; 2: Galloway, Mrs B – Steen Isla Class 605 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Galloway, Mr D – Southfield Magic Lantern; 2: Bennett, Mr JD – Heatherland Chressida; 3: P M & D S Ford – Sherberton Wanda 6 Class 606 – Maiden or in-calf heifer over 24 months 1: P M & D S Ford – Sherberton Willow 3; 2: Galloway, Mr D – South Ronaldo Girl; 3: Bunning, Mrs Alison – Hatherland Dun Bellatrix Class 607 – Bull under 24 months 1: Galloway, Mr D – Southfield Crackerjack Class 609 – Pair of animals from above classes property of the same exhibitor 1: Galloway, Mr D – Sherberton Willow 3; 2: P M & D S Ford; 3: Galloway, Mrs B – Hatherland Dun Bellatrix; 4: Bunning, Mrs Alison ANY OTHER NATIVE BEEF BREED Judge: Mr Peter Guest, Herefordshire Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion any other pure native beef breed Champion: Blackwell, Lucy – Irish Moiled; Reserve Champion: Mann, Mr & Mrs R – Sussex Class 610 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months

BRITISH LIMOUSINS Judge: Mr Geoff Hollow, Cornwall Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion British Limousin Champion: Sezincote Farms – SEZINCOTE GEISHA; Reserve Champion: Hill, Master Archie – Quaish Heebeegeebee Class 620 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Hill, Master Archie – Quaish Heebeegeebee; 2: Sezincote Farms – Sezincote Huarez Class 621 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Sezincote Farms – Sezincote Geisha; 2: Dunn, Mr G – Highridge Highclass; 3: M D & K E Lanfear – Woodston Hiccup Class 622 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Sezincote Farms – Sezincote Fritillaria; 2: Pidsley , Linda – Plas Golddust Class 623 – Bull under 24 months 1: Pidsley , Linda – Uptonley Hero Class 625 – Pair of Animals from the above classes; 2: Sezincote Farms Class 626 – Novice class for an exhibitor who has not won a 1 prize at Frome Show before 1: Hill, Master Archie – Quaish Heebeegeebee; 2: Pidsley , Linda – Plas Golddust BRITISH SIMMENTAL Judge: Mr Alan Bishop, Berkshire Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion British Simmental Champion: Curry, L J & A J – Winford Vogue 3; Reserve Champion: Edmunds, Mr R J – Castle Cindy Class 629 – Calf 6- 12 months 1: Curry, L J & A J – WINFORD ENZO 13 Class 630 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: H Bush & Sons – Chapman Tare’s Dandelion; 2: Curry, L J & A J – Winford Vogue 4; 3: Curry, LJ & AJ – Winford Danielle Class 631 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Curry, L J & A J – Winford Vogue 3; 2: Edmunds, Mr R J – Castle Cindy; 3: H Bush & Sons – Chapman Sorrel’s Campion Class 634 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: H Bush & Sons – Chapman Tare’s Dandelion; 2: Curry, L J & A J – Winford Vogue 4 BRITISH BLUE Judge: Mr Geoff Hollow, Cornwall Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion British Blue Champion: Dunn, J N & L P – Highbridge Blues Glitter; Reserve Champion: Hill, Miss Lottie – Newpole Heather Et Class 635 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Spiller, R F & C L – OXCROFT ENA Class 637 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Hill, Miss Lottie – NEWPOLE HEATHER ET Class 638 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Dunn, HR & SW – Kernow Tresawle Honey Class 639 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Dunn, J N & L P – Highbridge Blues Glitter; 2: Dunn, JN & LP – Highbridge Blues Glisten Class 640 – Bull under 24 months 1: M D & K E Lanfear – Woodston Handy Manny; 2: Spiller, R F & C L – Fulwood Heartbeat Class 641 – Bull over 24 months 1: Spiller, R F & C L – Trencrom Gobal Warrior Class 642 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: Dunn, J N & L P; 2: Spiller, RF & C L Class 644 – Group of 3 animals from above classes property of the same exhibitor 1: Spiller, RF & CL BRITISH CHAROLAIS Judge: Mr R Dorrell, Worcestershire Class CH – Champion British Charolais Champion: Wylde, Mr John – Martland Heavyweight; Reserve Champion: Wylde, Mr John – Martland Izzy Class 647 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Wylde, Mr John – Martland Izzy Class 650 – Bull under 24 months 1: Wylde, Mr John – Martland Heavyweight; 2: Wylde, Mr John – Martland Hero; 3: Stevens, R & J – Kates Bench Henry Class 652 – Pair of animals from the above classes 1: Wylde, Mr John LOWLINE Judge: Mr Peter Guest, Herefordshire Class CH – Champion Lowline Champion: Wessex Lowlines – Alta Gracie; Reserve Champion: Helyer,

Mrs Georgie – Langford Helen Class 653 – Cow or Calved Heifer 1: Wessex Lowlines – ALTA GRACIE; 2: Helyer, Mrs Georgie – Langford Emily; 3: Wessex Lowlines – Alta Sadie Class 654 – Calf (Male or Female) up to 12 Months 1: Helyer, Mrs Georgie – Langford Invinceabull; 2: Wessex Lowlines – WEssex Chip; 3: Wessex Lowlines – Wessex Crusher Class 655 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Helyer, Mrs Georgie – Langford Helen; 2: Humphreys, Mr A – Wessex Brooke; 3: Wessex Lowlines – Wessex Angela Class 657 – Bull under 24 months 1: Wessex Lowlines – Wessex Apollo; 2: Wessex Lowlines – Wessex Beau; 3: Wessex Lowlines – Wessex Chip Class 658 – Bull over 24 months 1: Wessex Lowlines – Langford Conker Class 659 – Pair of animals from above classes property of the same exhibitor 1: Wessex Lowlines ANY OTHER PURE IMPORTED BEEF BREED Judge: Mr R Dorrell ñ Worcestershire Class CH – Champion & Reserve Champion any other pure imported beef breed Champion: Knight, Mr & Mrs D – Blonde; Reserve Champion: Whistley Herd – Blonde Class 660 – Cow or Calved Heifer over 30 months 1: Knight, Mr & Mrs D – Blonde; 2: Joyce, Mr Robin – Blonde; 3: Harrow, Mrs Sue – Murrey Grey Class 661 – Calf under 6 months 1: Harrow, Mrs Sue – Murrey Grey; 2: Joyce, Mr Robin – Blonde Class 662 – Calf 6-12 months 1: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde; 2: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde Class 663 – Heifer 12-24 months 1: Whistley Herd – Blonde; 2: Knight, Mrs Sue – Blonde; 3: Harrow, Mrs Sue – Murrey Grey Class 664 – Maiden or In-Calf Heifer over 24 months 1: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde; 2: Joyce, Mr Robin – Blonde; 3: Harrow, Mrs Sue – Murrey Grey Class 665 – Bull under 24 months 1: Knight, Mrs Sue – Blonde Class 666 – Bull over 24 months 1: Harrow, Mrs Sue – Murrey Grey; 2: Joyce, Mr Robin – Blonde Class 667 – Pair of animals from above classes 1: Knight, Mr & Mrs David – Blonde; 2: Knight, Mrs Sue – Blonde; 3: Joyce, Mr Robin – Blonde COMMERCIAL BEEF, < 30 Months Judge: Mr A Cleave – Exeter Class CH – Best Animal in Commercial Classes Champion: Whitehouse Farm Partnership – Limousin x; Reserve Champion: Pidsley , Linda – Limousin x Class 668 – Novice Class, Best Steer 1: Lockyer, Mr AGF – SCRUMPY; 2: James, Miss Lucy – It Will Do; 3: Whistley Herd – Herald Class 669 – Novice Class, Best Heifer 1: Whitehouse Farm Partnership – Grace; 2: Whitehouse Farm Partnership – Georgie; 3: James, Miss Lucy – Winnie; 4: Baber, Claire M – Pudding; 5: Hill, Master Archie – Quaish Heebeegeebee; 6: Sayer, Mr Jake C – Jager Bomb Class 670 – Beef Steer under 15 Months of age 1: Pidsley , Linda – MOJO; 2: Pidsley , Linda – Disaronno; 3: MD & KE Lanfear – Jasper Class 671 – Beef Steer over 15 Months of age 1: Kingston, Mr R K – Fudge Monkey; 2: Pidsley , Linda – NE-YO; 3: Lockyer, Mr A G F – Tonto; 4: James, Miss Lucy – it Will Do Class 672 – Beef Heifer Under 15 Months 1: Kingston, Mr RK – Pandora; 2: MD & KE Lanfear – Woodston Hiccup; 3: Hill, Master Archie – Quaish Heebeegeebee; 4: Baber, Claire M – Pudding; 5: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Snowdrop Class 673 – Beef Heifer Over 15 Months 1: Whitehouse Farm Partnership – Grace; 2: M D & K E Lanfear – jazz; 3: Whitehouse Farm Partnership – georgie; 4: Pidsley , Linda – she’S a diva; 5: James, Miss Lucy – winnie Class 674 – A Native Breed Heifer or Steer 1: Whistley Herd – Hella; 2: Kingston, Mr R K – Guiness; 3: Woollatt, Mr & Mrs G H – Gupworthy Mistress; 4: Mells Park – Mells Park Elisabeth ALL BREEDS CALF SHOW Judge for Beef: Mr Tim Walwin ñ Somerset Judge for Dairy: Mr Dennis Smith ñ Devon Judge for Dexter Leaders: Mrs P Martin – Kent Class 675 – Beef Animal 1: MD & KE Lanfear – Jasper; 2: Pidsley , Linda – Disaronno; 3: Hill, Master Archie – Quaish Heebeegeebee; 4: MD & KE Lanfear – Hiccup; 5: Vining, Mr Tom – SUE; 6: Hill, Miss Lottie – Newpole Heather Et; 7: Payne, K – ROCKY Class 676 – Dairy Heifer 1: Miles , D B & H – Withamhall Toscano Gail; 2: Quick , Mr T R – Mendip Lavanguard Rose; 3: S R Pottow & Son; 4: Quick , Mr T R – Mendip Fever Dandy; 5: Clarke, Nick & Jo – Westleaze Pebble 31; 6: Clarke, Nick & Jo – Westleaze Alexander Magenta; 7: May, Mr D R – Noremead Rockafella Helen 6; 8: Adams, B & SV