Years of Galloway in Germany 50

international Galloway-family,

With great joy we have recently received the invitation to the World Galloway Conference in Switzerland. A sincere thank you to the hosts and their president Berchthold von Fischer for the interesting programme. In addition, thank you to Jane for forwarding all information and connecting everyone.

The first Galloways came to Hesse (Germany) from Scotland 50 years ago. Helmut Schornstein, a business man in a neighbouring village, had the smart and very innovative idea at the beginning of the 1970s to get this breed of robust cattle to Germany. This happened at a time when a comprehensive restructuring was underway in German agriculture. Many smaller family businesses with appr. 10 - 30 cows stopped producing. This opened up pastures for beef cattle breeds. All across the country there were more and more cow herds of specific continental intensive beef cattle breeds aside the traditional breeds such as Simentaler.

At this time the wonderful success story of Galloways in Germany begins. There is probably no other European country with a bigger Galloway population than Germany today. We want to celebrate this fact in the appropriate fashion with a large anniversary show in Hesse next

September. We are expecting more than 150 high-quality animals of all colours and ages. This will be combined with a great complimentary programme and many possibilities to network and make arrangements for further meetings and farm visits.

The interesting show (Galloway Open) of the Hessian Galloway Breeders Club on Saturday, the 2nd of September in Alsfeld - appr. one hour North of Frankfurt am Main in the middle of Germany - could be the start of a wonderful journey through Europe not only for the international participants from Overseas. The tours special highlight will be the World Galloway Conference in Switzerland two weeks later. It will be our pleasure to help and support all participants in the planning of their journey concerning accommodation and transport as well as organisation of visits and meetings.

We wish all friends of the Galloway breed a happy and healthy time as well as fun and excitement when preparing for the journey. We are looking forward to meeting all of you in Alsfeld (Germany) and especially in Bern (Switzerland).

Contact for the interest group of Galloway Breeders: Horst Kraft, Am Lohe 6, 34633 Ottrau

Mail: bechtelsberg@aol.com

Mobil: 0049 172 711 611 5