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A CROP of Lomond turnips on a Morayshire farm has triumphed in the Royal Northern Agricultural Society’s turnip growing contest. The annual competition, sponsored by Murray Duguid Seed Merchants, attracted 25 entries from Nairn in the north to Laurencekirk in the south. The judge, Duguid s Ian Moir, awarded the overall champion title to Niall Mustard’s 7.5-acre block of Lomond turnips grown at Cloves, Alves, near Forres. Taking first prize in both the Non-Less Favoured Areas and feeding sections, the crop was sown into a flat bed on May 12 and achieved a yield of 70.34 tonnes per acre. “The success of the crop was mainly down to luck but there was a lot of farmyard manure applied beforehand and it was sown into a moist seed bed, allowing the seeds to germinate nicely,” said Mr Mustard, who grew the neeps for feeding some of the farm’s 1000 store lambs. ....