Summer at last…. And temperatures up to 30 deg.C. – something we have not seen for many years. Grass fields are looking quite brown but the cattle seem quite content with the silage given as a supplement.
The S.W. Limousin Club sale at Bristol was not a great success – partly due to the hot weather and many people stayed at home making hay whilst the sun shone.
The irrigation equipment has been working flat out – keeping the potatoes growing and hopefully the quality good. We hope to start lifting early August (a fortnight later than usual) and sadly market prices have been affected by a fall in demand.
I took two heifers and two junior bulls to the Royal Welsh Show – with all animals being well placed in their respective classes – 3rd places for Killerton Gucci and Killerton Hera in strong heifer classes. I was thrilled to win the All-Breeds Elite Junior Bull championship with Killerton Hillbilly judged by Mr Murray Cowan, Fairly, South Island, New Zealand. Hillbilly is entirely homebred being by the sire Killerton Eagle, a Grahams Unbeatable son, and out of the dam Killerton Cecille who goes back to a Rivermead female. With a Beef Value of LM+37, he was described by the judge as “very mobile and a very good mover.”
Another strong performance from Patrick Greed and his Limousin cattle as Killerton Gucci takes top prizes at the Mid Devon Agricultural Show 2013
Just two days after returning from the Welsh Show I took Kaprico Donato and Killerton Gucci to the local Mid Devon Agricultural Show. Gucci was placed Continental Beef Champion and went on to become Interbreed Show Champion – another success for my homebred heifer by Kaprico Donato, out of Killerton Darcy.
I have started cutting Winter Barley but it is not quite fit – a breakdown and rain put a stop to this! Yields look around average.