PLEASE NOTE: 2025 NEXT GEN V SIMMENTAL FEMALE SALE BEING HELD ALONGSIDE RED LADIES LIMOUSIN SALE IN DECEMBER AT CARLISLE! Sale Date Friday 12th December Closing date for entries 10th October In a major sale date change, the British Simmental Cattle Society is pleased...
We’re continuing to take snapshots of Simmentals doing the business in commercial sale rings around the UK. Today we’re highlighting just some Simmy toppers from sales across England in this last three weeks. Simmentals giving you all of the milk and maternal...
Sales at Thainstone, UA Stirling, Caledonian Marts, Lanark, Ayr, Fort William, and Dumfries featured. We’re back in Scotland, looking at this last fortnight, and featuring auction marts where Simmental cattle are doing the business and with leading top prices across...
Members of the Northern Ireland Simmental Cattle Breeders’ Club are reminded that the 2015 Junior Heifer Derby, sponsored by Woodcraft Kitchens (Kilrea), takes place at Lurgan Show on Saturday, 6th June.
Open to heifers born in 2014, the Junior Heifer Derby carries at total prize fund of £350, and will be judged by RUAS president and breed stalwart Billy Robson OBE, from the noted Kilbride Farm Herd based at Doagh, County Antrim.
The schedule for Lurgan’s 103rd show includes a variety of classes for Simmental cows, heifers, bulls, and is also a qualifier for the Ivomec Super Simmental Pair of the Year competition. The event is a points show for the Danske Bank Male and Female of the Year Awards.
The County Armagh venue is also staging a class for Simmental young handlers, and is inviting entries for calves under one-year-old, and an exhibitor-bred calf under six-months-of-age.
Entries close on Saturday, 23rd May.
For further information download a schedule and entry form from the show’s website: www.lurganshow.co.uk, or contact cattle section secretary Sandra Byrne on tel: 028 9153 2417.
