DALTON CATTLE TAG OFFER
Dalton ID Systems are offering Limousin members 10% discount on their cattle
tags range. Not only is that great value but Limousin members will also get
free replacement tags for any of the tags that they purchase under this offer.
See the range HERE
WILODGE
CERBERUS SEMEN LAUNCHED
Semen from the 50,000gns Limousin bull, Wilodge Cerberus, is now available
for purchase exclusively online at www.semenstore.co.uk. Priced at £50
per straw plus delivery and VAT – with no semen royalty – he
is available worldwide.
UPTAKE
IN LIMOUSIN HERD HEALTH
INITIATIVE INCREASES BY 18%
Breeders’ participation in the BLCS Herd Health Initiative
has continued to grow sharply with 156 herds, representing 5,375
pedigree Limousin calves, having registered for the financially
incentivised initiative.
LIMOUSIN
BREED INCREASES MARKET SHARE TO 35%
Figures released for 2008 by the British Cattle
Movement Service, Workington, show that out of a total
of 1,821,505 beef sired calves registered in the year,
629,126 were sired by Limousin bulls.
MILLGATE
LIMOUSIN SUCCESS GROWS FROM GREENMOUNT LIMO PROJECT
It has been an amazing few months for former Greenmount
LIMO Project student, Christina Loughran, Dungate, Dunamore,
Cookstown, Co. Tyrone which has seen her top the pedigree
Limousin sales scene at both the Perth and Carlisle bull
sales.
CALLING
ALL BUTCHERS
The search is now on for the UK's top young talent in an ambitious
new television programme, Young Butcher of the Year 2009, which
celebrates the millions of young British workers whose skills
aren't the kind to win them a million pound recording contract.
SEMENSTORE.CO.UK
IS LAUNCHED
Semenstore.co.uk, the one-stop semen shop website has been officially
launched and is open for business.
ANGLO-IRISH
LIMOUSIN STOCKJUDGING/HANDLING EVENT
The Anglo-Irish Young Limousin Breeders stockjudging competition,
inaugurated last year at Tullamore, in the Republic of Ireland,
took place this year on Saturday 13th September in Northern Ireland
at the Moira Sales Arena.