Aiming to help council drive breed forward.NORTHUMBERLAND Charolais breeder Ian Campbell Ian Campbell is a name shared by several people:
Mr Campbell, who is based at Thurnton near Alnwick, is a former chairman of the Scottish and North-erCharolais Breeders, and has been breeding the cattle for 35 years with his father, Colin, and brother, John. The family's Thrunton pedigree herd is now the biggest in the North East at 380 head and Charolais from it have taken the Perth supreme cham-pionshion five occasions. Mr Campbell said: "Over the years, we've focused on the same set of simple objectives - to breed high-quality bulls for the commercial sector that leave progeny which are easy to calve calve act of parturition by a cow or other mammal producing a calf as offspring. , grow as quickly as possible, have excellent conformation con·for·ma·tion n. One of the spatial arrangements of atoms in a molecule that can come about through free rotation of the atoms about a single chemical bond. and now they're also backed up by good estimated breeding values. "I'm looking forward to my three-year stint on council, helping to drive the breed forward as the UK's leading terminal sire." CAPTION(S): HARD AT WORK Hexham Mart auctioneer Scott Donaldson, left, and farmer Ian Campbell, of Thrunton Farm. |
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