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1 The Ayrshire Journal The Ayrshire Journal 2 Welcome To the 2015 Autumn edition of the Ayrshire Journal. As your new President I feel a major achievement so far has been in helping to get the Society, Breed Heritage and Cattle Services all working together under one umbrella, sourcing the best Editorial possible genetics from all over the country, Breed Manager’s Report ............................................... 4 identifying special cow families and involving the Office News ................................................................6-8 farmer in breeding decisions on future sires for the Diary Of A Conference Hosting Club Secretary ............ 10 development of the breed and Cattle Services. 2015 Conference Report ........................................12-15 An Interview With Robert Adams ................................. 16 We will be saddened to lose Edward Evans, Stuart’s Diary ............................................................... 18 and of course Margaret, on his retirement at 2015 Young Breeders Gathering Report .................20-21 the end of this year and I would like to take this Robert Adams Getting To Know Hugh Stevenson ............................... 23 opportunity to thank them both for all their hard Hugh Stevenson Memorial Trophy Winners ............24-25 work, dedication and hospitality over the years. Edward’s Cattle Services Update ................................ 26 I started my year with a visit to Balmoral Show in the entertaining company of Hugh Breed Heritage Report ................................................. 28 McWilliams. Following that, a trip to Cornwall where I was hosted and driven around National Ayrshire Show 2015 ..................................30-33 by Courtney Walters (an experience in itself) to attend the Royal Cornwall Show, Show Results .........................................................34-37 an open day and various herd visits. Being shown around by a very enthusiastic, A Golden & Breed Changing Fifty Years For CSA....38-39 knowledgeable young breeder, Emma Roskilly, rounded off an enjoyable week of Classifications/Club Cows/Star Brood Cows ..........42-52 always going against the flow of both traffic and crowds! Club News ..............................................................54-58 Calling in at Devon I was hosted by Mark Evans, and toured around more herds Advertisers before going on to judge the South of England Show, where there was an excellent Adams R T & J I ......................................................... 41 show of cattle with a good display of young handlers from both colleges. Adamson J & Son ....................................................... 11 Broadley J D & B F ..................................................... 29 Following on were visits to: the Royal Highland where the Hugh Stevenson Trophy Cattle Services (Ayr) Ltd .............................................. BC was deservedly presented to David Lawrie; the Livestock Event where Duncan and Christophers W R C & J E ........................................... 19 his team of young breeders once again put on an excellent show and gave people Devon Ayrshire Breeders Club ....................................... 9 who would not normally show the opportunity to do so; the Great Yorkshire Show Evans M ...................................................................... 17 where we saw the best display of Ayrshires anywhere, especially in the senior and Harrison & Hetherington .............................................. 40 junior cow in milk classes; the Royal Welsh Show where again there was a strong Lawrie A & S .................................................................. 5 show of cattle with the Hunnington herd taking the championship; Stranraer Show Lawrie & Symington Ltd ............................................... 28 presented a tremendous line up of Ayrshires with Stevenson’s Bunty 114 EX 93 Lindsay D M ...............................................................IBC taking the Supreme Interbreed Championship. NMR ............................................................................ 53 I then visited more herds en route to Dumfries Show where, last but not least, there Norbrook Laboratories Ltd .......................................... 27 was another excellent show of Ayrshires. I would like to thank everyone for their Reed P & L .................................................................. 22 kind hospitality and have so much enjoyed seeing good cattle in all the show rings Suffern J ...................................................................... 40 but most rewarding of all, I find, is to meet people and see good cows at home, on Willows Embryo Transfer Services ................................. 8 the farm in their natural surroundings. Window C & L ............................................................ IFC Cover: Grand Champion National Ayrshire Show 2015 - Cuthill Towers Radar Ray 13 EX 93. Photos by Richard Hodgson and Katie Davidson. Designed by Agri Promotions Ltd Advertising Rates For Members - Page £180 + VAT, Half £110 + VAT, Qua. £85 + VAT - Closing date for the next journal - 31st October 2015 Patron: Her Majesty the Queen Hon Presidents: Lord Plumb, DL, Coleshill and J M H Rennie, Brocklehill, Ayr Visit our President: Robert Adams, Shirley Old Park Farm, Rodsley, Ashbourne, Derby Tel: 01335 330203 website by Business Co-ordinator: Arthur Lawrie - Tel: 01577 830221 scanning this Breed Manager: Duncan Hunter - Tel: 0777 1826403 QR code. Cattle Services Marketing & Promotions Officer: Edward Evans - Tel: 01691 682730 / 07814 087913 Cattle Services Chairman - Alex Kirkpatrick - Tel: 01659 50313 Office Manager: Claire Kimm, Westburn House, McNee Road, Prestwick, Ayrshire KA9 2PB Tel: 01292 471292 Fax: 01292 474686 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ayrshirescs.org Charity No.: SC007015 The views and opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the Society which cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information contained in advertisements. 3 The Ayrshire Journal Breed Manager’s Report Written by Duncan Hunter At a time when our industry yet again is pulling on the purse strings I Back in June of this year I represented our breed at the European Red understand how difficult things are out there for many, and all I can say Breeds meeting in Latvia. Red breeds are very dominant throughout is hopefully there will be an upturn soon and encourage and support you much of Europe, and this meeting is a chance to get together, to promote as best I can. This leads me to bring you the news that we as a Society ourselves and discuss how we can learn from each other. Countries are putting a freeze on additional registration fees for all overage animals represented were Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, until 1st November 2015 and shall backdate from the 1st July 2015. This Poland, Estonia, Denmark and ourselves. We each did a presentation will be a one off offer to enable you to get caught up on your registrations on our breed, and I can honestly say that there was much interest in and on the condition that you then register in the future on time. With this my PowerPoint presentation, with many questions and discussions on catch up we will also offer monthly payments to suit you, but you must Ayrshires throughout the two day conference. One of the biggest subjects, contact me to have this arranged before your catch up. I hope you feel and many talks were had on it, was the development of genomics with that as a Society we are doing our best to help you during these difficult times. in the Red Breeds. The majority of the European Reds are made up of different bloodlines and are evaluated in similar environments, which has Much has been going on since the last journal. Yet another very given them an advantage in numbers to be able to get a reliable base successful Young Breeders Gathering this year, held in the beautiful to work from. I had some very interesting discussions with the genomic county of Devon, and I must thank the Devon Club for their hospitality experts from Viking Reds who confirmed my issue that, as such a small and hard work during the event. Congratulations to this year’s winner of breed without the numbers needed, we will take a long time before we the Hugh Stevenson award, David Lawrie, and also to the junior award can get information that can be of use to us. The organisation Viking winner of the John Cochrane Trophy, Laura Partington. Reds have tested over 18,000 DNA which has given them a solid base to work from, with good reliability figures. Cost is our biggest obstacle. The conference was again a huge success with a superbly well run event At the cost of about £56 per DNA and 10,000 samples needed to get the from start to finish. The Cumbrian Club should be commended for their reliable information needed, need I say more? However I am to be in the huge efforts and achievement in making this yet again a spectacular process of looking at the possibility of an EU grant to help us fund this in event. the future. I shall keep you updated on that. Show season was then soon upon us and much success for the breed As many of you will know our show ring rules take a slight change as has been made all over the UK. I have had the pleasure in witnessing many of these displays of our breed and all exhibitors, be it at regional from 1st January 2016 to bring the show ring in line with our registration or National events, and you should be proud of the

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