Young Show Stars – Three Counties Showground, Malvern Huge congratulations go to both teams representing the Beef Shorthorn Society at the Young Show Stars Event at Malvern on Thursday 2nd April. The two teams of Romy Jackson, Sophie Pallett, Charlie McLean, John McCulloch, David Rea and James Rea did a tremendous job and were a credit to themselves and the Society.

http://greatyorkshireshow.co.uk/entries-results/entry_forms_and_schedules

in order to ensure you get your entries in and avoid disappointment. I understand that the

Yorkshire Show are contacting all previous exhibitors with this information so I suspect most of the stall

allocations will have already been taken up by the time the schedules are printed.

The presentation BBQ will be held on the Morrisons stand from 5.30pm onwards with the presentation taking place at approximately 6.30pm on Tuesday 14th July. Admission is free to members but tickets must be ordered from the office and collected from the Shorthorn Marquee at the show. Admission will be strictly by ticket only…so BOOK THEM NOW!

Open Day at Buccleuch

Buccleuch Estates are hosting a Beef Shorthorn open Day on Tuesday September 8th. The Estate at Bowhill, Selkirk covers over 8,000 acres and carries 450 breeding suckler cows with 100 put to the Beef Shorthorn bull every year. The Estate won the 2014 Morrison/Beef Shorthorn Suckler Herd of the Year Competition. The herds management under the Farm Manager Sion Williams was praised for its attention to detail and its extensive use of records to analyse herd performance and monitor health status. It will be a very interesting visit with input from PCHS, EBLEX and hopefully NFUS. More information will be available nearer the time.

Type Classification

The Beef Shorthorn Society is introducing a type classification system for Beef Shorthorn females which will be launched later in 2015. The reason for a type classification system is to independently identify the females within the breed which conform to the structural requirements necessary to ensure high levels of production and adaptability to the environment. The assessments will be carried out by Holstein UK classifiers who will work to a system agreed by the Beef Shorthorn Breed Development Committee.

Structural soundness is heritable and so can be improved by selection. Some maternal characteristics such as udder conformation cannot be physically seen on a bull but are still transmitted to his offspring.

This scheme will be a huge benefit to the continued improvement of Beef Shorthorns and thanks to the Beef Shorthorns partnership over the last four years with Morrisons the Society will be able to offer this service free of charge to all members.

More details about the scheme will be available nearer to the launch date and in the meantime I will be giving a presentation about the scheme to members at the Central Club’s herd visit to Podehole on Sunday May 10th. The club and the Horrell’s are very kindly inviting any members who wish to join them on May 10th to come along for the visit. If you do want to attend then please notify Charles and Sally on 01733270247 in advance. It is unfair and impolite to turn up unannounced.

Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society

4th Street, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. CV8 2LG

tel: 02476 696 549

email: shorthorn@shorthorn.co.uk

Beef ShorthornApril 2015Newsletter:

Events 2015:May 4th - Stirling Sale, United Auctions

May 13th/15th - Royal Ulster (Balmoral) Show

May 22nd - Annual sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle

June 18th/21st - Royal Highland Show

July 14th/16th - National Beef Shorthorn Show at Great Yorkshire Show

July 20th/23rd - Royal Welsh Show

August 22nd - Youth Development Day at Highland Wagyu

September 8th - Open Day at Buccleuch Farms

October 19th - Stirling Bull Sales

National Beef Shorthorn Show at the Great Yorkshire Show 14-16th July We have been informed by the Great Yorkshire Show that there is a delay in printing the Great Yorkshire Show schedule and booking form for entries for the 2015 Great Yorkshire Show. As this is the UK Beef Shorthorn Championships and entries are accepted on a first come first served basis, I would urge you to submit your stall bookings as soon as possible online at:

Selling at Society Sales A reminder to all vendors at Beef Shorthorn Society sales that any animals sold outside the ring must be put through the auctioneers books. This is a rule of all auction sales and will be upheld by the Beef Shorthorn Society at all its official sales. The animals sold through the market will have free transfers administered by the Society and will also be covered by the NBA fertility warranty. There is also considerable expense incurred by the market and by the Society in putting on a sale and all animals arriving for the sale have benefitted from cataloguing, advertising etc whether or not they are sold through the ring.

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New Beef Shorthorn Society Sale Carlisle – 26th Feb 2016

Following requests from breeders in the North of England the Directors have agreed to hold a new sale at Carlisle in February 2016 to assist buyers looking for animals in early spring. The sale will be held at Borderway Mart on 26th February alongside the established sale of Whitebred Shorthorns and Galloways and will be a full sale for both males and females.

Royal Welsh Subsidy

Following the success at the Royal Welsh Show in 2014, the Directors are very keen to encourage more entries and have agreed to continue the £50 per animal subsidy for travel to the show. The Mohmar Trophy and generous prize of £1,000 will be available again for the ‘most successful herd’ across four qualifying shows and the Royal Welsh is one of the qualifying shows.

The Society will again have a stand at the show and we would love to see you there.

Imported Semen

In order to avoid any disappointment members are reminded to submit all pedigrees from overseas semen or embryos to the Society for checking as overseas Societies do not always have the same registration rules as the Beef Shorthorn Society who have to operate in accordance with EU herd book rules.

Members who advertise on the website

It would greatly assist the Society if members who have advertised their animals on the website could let us know as soon as these animals have been sold, but animals with be automatically removed from the website after 3 months.

The Society doesn’t always know when private sales have taken place and this can cause frustration if people find an animal they like on the website, only to discover that it has already been sold.

Society Mail

Can all members please make sure that they address envelopes to The Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society. There are several companies on site who share the abbreviation BSCS and delays occur when post is misdirected. Also that the correct postage is applied.

Annual Subscription

Membership was due on 1st January if your subscription is still outstanding please send payment by return. This will avoid delays when submitting future registrations etc and you not receiving important mailings.

For your eyes only

There was a request at the AGM for the minutes of the Directors meetings to be put on the website. Following the last Directors meeting, a members section of the website where notes from the Directors meetings will be posted has been set up. These notes will not be posted until after they have been approved by the following Director’s meeting, so the notes currently posted are from last Novembers meeting.

The members section is accessed from the top navigation panel under members. (not members login which is the abri database). If you ask the website to save the username and password you should not need to enter it everytime.

Username: memberpage Password: bscs

Beef Shorthorn Calendar

You may have noticed that there is a link on the Beef Shorthorn website to a calendar which highlights events and shows throughout the year.

If you have a forthcoming event which you think would be of interest to other members, please contact the office with the details.

Record Breaking Prices at Ballylinney Reduction Sale

Beef Shorthorn records were smashed in Carlisle on Saturday 14 March when Derek and Cindy Steen offered a portion of their Ballylinney herd. An 18,000gns male record price was achieved together with a new £3,644 female average for 135 entries representing 100% clearance.

The sale was very well organised and the cattle were presented to a very high standard. Congratulations to all involved. This certainly proves that demand for Shorthorn heifers is still high and bodes well for sales throughout the rest of the year.

Calf Names

The year letter for 2015 is “J”. Historically the following letters have not been used so as to avoid confusion. I,O,Q, U and V .

Royal Highland Show 18th-21st June

We are expecting a fantastic turn out of cattle at the Royal Highland Show again in 2015.

Please come along and support the winners at the prize giving on Thursday 18th. It is a great honour to win at the Royal Highland and the winners deserve your support. The prize giving will be at 4.00pm on the Shorthorn stand.

The evening barbeque, which again is very generously sponsored by Morrisons and starts at 7pm, will be restricted to members and friends and will be admission by ticket only so it is essential that you book your tickets through the office. The tickets will be available to be collected from the stand at the show to those who have ordered them. There won’t be another newsletter before June so don’t forget to book your tickets – DO IT NOW!