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Having been featured in The Scottish Farmer in 1983 as a ‘Crofter of Our Time’ it was fitting we returned 40 years later to visit the family…

A character in the show ring that needs no introduction this week is Bert Taylor who told us all about his stockman career.

Background? I was born and bred at Flowerybrae, Memsie, where my father farmed. I came straight home to work alongside him after I left school with the commercial cattle, until I got married in August, 1972. I then worked at various commercial and dairy farms before getting started in the pedigree work. My first pedigree job was at Harestone, where I brought out Charolais cattle for five years, before moving to the Durnos, at Uppermill, for a further five years. It was at that point I moved to Inverurie and started my freelance work in 2001 – securing two days a week at Thainstone auc...

WITH MORE than 1000 followers on a closed facebook page, Andy Frazier's Top Line and Top Tales has enjoyed a rapt audience since start up a few months ago. Dedicated to the talents of stockmen and breeders over the years, there have been some lively discussions about the merits or otherwise of some famous (and not so famous) animals and their handlers. So much so that Andy – a former stockman himself – has now made an enjoyable and growing selection of downloadable podcasts to go with the page. From the merits of the breeding programmes enacted by the late J Ernest Kerr, of Harviest...