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...
The aims of which are to increase understanding of how grazing breeding or growing cattle on a common, allotment or other rough grazing affects:
• growth rates of the animals
• the quality and quantity of grass available in-bye for conservation or feeding other stock
• the rough grazing vegetation
And identify any problems with grazing rough ground or a common
• Growth rates or condition score changes
• Grass quality on rough ground
• Grass quality and some growth rates on in-bye
• Fertiliser inputs on in-bye
• Any health problems or management issues
• Cost/ benefit analysis
6 of the 12 farmers participating have some Simmentals or Simmental crosses in their herds.
