Using the Limousin as a terminal sire over Holstein females to improve the quality and value of the progeny is providing a win win scenario for the Gould family, Grange Farm, Bomere Heath near Shrewsbury. Having milked cows all their lives, the family of Mick and Jean Gould, son Mick and wife Katherine, were looking to a new venture to future proof the business which they run along with three members of staff. The small herd of just 15 pedigree Limousin females plus young stock runs alongside 750 Holstein milkers and young stock. “We believe the Limousin is the top beef breed to produce beef from dairy and suckler herds as they produce easy calving sires and they maximise the more expensive cuts of beef and for lean forequarter beef. The breed has excellent growth rates and food conversion figures,” said Mick, adding that the dairy will always remain the family’s primary focus.
Top price: 250,000gns Limousin heifer...Photo Wayne Hutchinson A PENRITH businessman helped set a new Limousin world record price when a fourteen-month-old maiden heifer went under the hammer for 250,000gns (£262,500) in Carlisle. Allan Jenkinson, who owns the Whinfellpark herd, based at Clifton Moor, Penrith, bid for British Limousin maiden heifer, Wilodge Poshspice, in a joint purchase with Charlie Boden of the Sportsmans herd, based at Mellor Hall Farms, Stockport. Bred by Christine Williams and Paul Tippetts at Lodge Hill Farm, Park Lane, Shifnal, Shropshire, Wilodge Poshspice is by Ampertaine Elgin and out of Milbrook Gingerspice. A combination of stunning visual appeal and a pedigree packed full of breeding lines convinced joint purchasers, Mr Jenkinson and Mr Boden.
World beater: New World Record priced heifer A NEW world record price of 250,000gns has been paid for a Limousin heifer at a joint herd sale at Carlisle. The November-2019 born Wilodge Poshspice, from Shropshire breeders Christine Williams and Paul Tippetts, smashed the previous record for 125,000gn when she sold at Harrison and Hetherington’s Borderway Mart in Carlisle. Doubling the previous record of 125,000gns paid for Glenrock Illusion at the Illingworth's Glenrock dispersal in 2014 at Carlisle, Poshspice sold in a two-way split to Messrs Jenkinson, buying for the Whinfellpark herd from Penrith, and Charlie Boden of the Sportsmans herd from Stockport.