April 24, 2021, 6:00 am During the week, Agrilandmade the journey over to Loughglynn in Co. Roscommon to check out a new suckler unit on the farm of Christopher Scally. Christopher, a winner of the Macra Na Feirme drystock young farmer of the year for 2020, took over the running of the family farm in his own right in 2019 and since then put plans in place to increase housing space on the farm, as well as putting in handling facilities. Christopher described himself “as a bit of a perfectionist” and that comes across straight away when you walk into the farm. The Roscommon-native runs a suckler herd of cows, made up predominately of Shorthorn and Angus-cross cows – with the majority calved down in the autumn time and some during the springtime.