Pedigree judge takes top carcase prize

His winning entry was a 380kg Limousin cross steer, by an unregistered Limousin bull.

The carcase judge, Robert Bowring, a farmer/butcher from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, said this was an ‘exceptional carcase’ and he later paid £4.18/kg (£1,592.39) for it.

Reserve champion was a Limousin sired heifer weighing 421kg from Paul Dawes of Dinmore, Herefordshire. It later sold for £3.65/kg (£1,542.80) to the judge.

Both the champion and reserve rosettes in the lamb carcase judging went to Robin Slade of Leominster, with home-bred Dutch Texels weighing 28.5kg and 23.4kg respectively. The champion carcase made £7.70/kg (£219.80) to J.S. Meats, Staffordshire, and the reserve sold to the live sheep judge Stuart Clatworthy for £5.94/kg (£139.05).

Winner of the live/dead lamb class was Messrs Madders and Johnson of Tixall, Staffordshire, with a pen of three untrimmed Beltex cross lambs.

First time exhibitor, P. Shakeshaft of Telford, Shropshire, took the championship in the pork carcase section with a Pietrain cross, which later realised £1.78/kg (£123.69) to Mr Bowring.

Another first time exhibitor, Robert Butler of Chesterfied, Derbyshire, took the title in the turkey section with a large Bronze hen. The prizewinner was bought by Horsley Lodge Golf Club, Derbyshire, for £160.

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