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Scotland’s leading livestock auctioneers Scotland’s leading livestock auctioneers Stirling Bull Sales Stirling Bull Sales SALES ENTRY REQUIREMENTS BVD VACCINATIONS - ALL Charolais cattle forward at BCCS auspices sales are to be vaccinated against BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) as per the manufacturers instructions. For herds which are in a CHeCS approved health scheme and are BVD accredited they do not have to be BVD blood antigen tested, but must be fully BVD vaccinated. Stirling Bull Sales For the herds which are not BVD accredited, then potential sale cattle should be BVD antigen tested negative, and given the first BVD vaccination on the same day as the blood sample is taken. If the BVD antigen test is negative, the animals should then be given the second vaccination 3-4 weeks later (if using a double jab vaccine). BVD antigen testing certificates must accompany the cattle to the sale or they will be rejected from the sale. IMPORTANT - Do not vaccinate cattle just prior to the sales as immunity to BVD will not have built up sufficiently. CATTLE NOT FULLY VACCINATED FOR BVD WILL NOT BE ALLOWED ENTRY TO THE AUCTION CENTRE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STIRLING FEBRUARY AND OCTOBER SALES ARE EXCLUSIVE FOR ABRI BREEDPLAN RECORDED BULLS WHICH MUST (AS A MINIMUM REQUIREMENT) BE RECORDED FOR BIRTH WEIGHT, 200 DAY WT, 400 DAY WT AND BE INDEPENDENTLY ULTRA SOUND SCANNED AND HAVE HAD A SCROTAL CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENT THE CHAROLAIS CONSIGNORS MUST ALSO BE MEMBERS OF A CHEcS HEALTH SCHEME HEALTH DECLARATION FORMS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE CHAROLAIS OFFICE OR DOWNLOADED FROM THE CHAROLAIS WEBSITE www.charolais.co.uk 22 No bull works harder for the farmer, the plate and the planet
Obituary Margaret Atkinson On leaving school at 16, Margaret worked in the accounts department at ICI Harrogate and studied maths GCE and farm records and accounts at evening class at Harrogate College of Further Education. Margaret continued her studies at Lindsey Farm Institute at Riseholme in Lincolnshire, gaining a distinction in Farm Secretarial Work, typing, private secretarial work and shorthand. Margaret returned to her beloved Yorkshire and set up her own business in agricultural accounts and costings, working for two titled families as well as farmers with large pig units. Her business went from strength to strength driven forward by the determined and forward-thinking lady we all knew. Margaret was an active member of Winksley cum Grantley Young Farmers Club from an early age and it was there that she met Michael, her husband to be. She was the club secretary and at one point the district YFC secretary as well. Margaret was a competitive sports player and played hockey from the age of 13. Her passion for hockey never faltered, despite having her two front teeth knocked out whilst playing for the college. Typical of Margaret she was very competitive and represented Yorkshire at hockey and woe betide anybody who fouled her intentionally! She continued to play for Ripon Ladies into her mid 50s. Some 5 years after Mike had proposed to Margaret when he was only 17 and a half, they were married at St Nicholas church, West Tanfield on the 26th April 1969. They moved to Kirkby Malzeard where Mike farmed, 12 months later Harvey was born, so Margaret treated herself to 10 days maternity leave. Two years later Bradley came along and this time the maternity leave was reduced to 7 days. After another 2 years Lindsey was born and the maternity leave was just 2 days, it was probably a weekend! Several grandchildren arrived later. It was often said that Margaret burned the candle at both ends. She really did live life in the fast lane. She worked hard and played hard, carrying out her farm secretarial business during the day and playing hockey, tennis and badminton during the evenings and weekends. Fortunately, her parents lived next door to do the necessary babysitting. At weekends the boys were shipped off to scouts, whilst Lindsey went with her dad to the markets to gather his luck money. Margaret loved to talk and no matter where she was or who she was with, was never short of a word or two. Always wanting to keep busy, Margaret was looking for a new challenge for her 40th birthday, so one weekend they decided to visit Billy and Jane Turner’s Brampton Charolais herd and bought 3 young Charolais cows and calves. Two of the cows were used for embryo transfer and became the nucleus of the Mowbraypark herd. The herd became very successful breeding some top-quality animals such as Gigi, who won the Royal Show and was part of a winning Burke Trophy team; Napoleon was a Perth supreme champion; Paramount was a successful A I sire. They also bred the male champion at the last Royal Show and so the list goes on. The Mowbraypark herd were the first to export Charolais cattle to Romania, as well as semen to Australia and Zimbabwe. When Mike and Margaret visited Brampton on that first visit, they came into the house for a cup of tea and Med and I got on with them like a house on fire and we became lifelong friends. Margaret was committed to this new chapter of her life and she was appointed secretary of the Yorkshire region of the British Charolais Cattle Society and over the years helped organise numerous functions to promote the Charolais breed. She held this position up to the present time. Mike and Margaret became very involved in the global world of Charolais and attended several overseas congresses, as well as events in the UK. Of particular note was a trip to Sardinia when British Charolais took on the French Herd Book at football. Of course, Margaret played and came out with her old hockey tactics and took out the star player of the French team by kicking his shins! Margaret supported several charities and held fund raising events for Cancer Research, the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the Addington Fund. Consequently, as a result of her tireless charity work, she was invited to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party where she met the Queen. Margaret’s competitive side never faltered and when she retired from sport, she decided politics would be the next challenge. She became the secretary of the Kirkby Malzeard and District Conservative Club, which sparked her initial interest to stand for a seat on Harrogate Borough Council. She eventually won her seat, where she served since May 2002, she went on to become a North Yorkshire County Councillor in 2013. Margaret represented Harrogate Borough Council on the Yorkshire Agricultural Society Agriculture Committee. In May of this year Margaret was appointed to serve as the last ever chair of North Yorkshire County Council before it is replaced by a new unitary authority next year. Margaret, as always, was fully committed to this role and attended as many civic functions as possible, often being escorted by Mike or the county chauffeur. One particular highlight was a recent invitation to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales at Scarborough. It was Mike’s preferred choice that she was driven to the various functions so as to keep the body repair bills to a minimum, as she tended to drive herself a little too fast on some of the narrow country lanes. She was such a high mileage model that it was a regular occurrence for her to don her boiler suit on a morning and do some farm jobs before dashing back to the house for a shower, change of clothes, pick up the chain of office and be whisked away by the chauffeur to a function. Margaret was a busy person and as the old saying goes if you want something done, ask a busy person and Margaret was always there to help out. There is no doubt Margaret’s untimely passing has left a hole in many people’s lives but we should remember her as a positive, hardworking, generous and caring person who doted on her family. No bull works harder for the farmer, the plate and the planet 23
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Page 3 and 4: Charolais, the breed that leads the
Page 5 and 6: 2023 Sale Dates Aberdeen 1 March Au
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