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Aberdeenshire's up and coming young Limousin breeders, William and David Moir, took the breed sale at Stirling by storm, selling the top priced lot at 11,000gns. The brothers from Home Farm, Cairness, Fraserburgh, topped the trade with Cairness Paavo, a black polled bull by Goldies Goldfinger. He is bred from the Newhouse Billy-sired Knock Fifi, a cow bought privately from Albert and George Howie, and sold to D Walker and Son, Camregan, Girvan, Ayrshire. Second top price was 10,000gns paid later in the day for the Barclay family's Harestone Playboy, a June 2019-born bull from the Insch-...

Producing even crops of well-fleshed calves from home-bred replacement females is proving a winning formula for the Stirling family, who run a profitable beef suckler cow herd on their 1500-acre upland unit on the outskirts of Carrbridge, in Strathspey. Since introducing the Simmental as a maternal sire to breed milky and fertile females, and the Limousin to produce growthy progeny for the store ring, the family has found that they are now breeding more uniform batches of calves for sale through Aberdeen and Northern Marts’ Thainstone Centre. As well as producing strong sale averages ...