Luing Cattle Society
Strong trade for 45th Premier Sale.......
The 45th Premier Sale which took place at Wallets Mart, Castle Douglas yesterday saw a good strong trade for pedigree Luing Cattle. 112 bulling heifers forward all sold to average £1,631 (up £240 on the year for 3 more sold); a top price of 3,000gns was paid by Messrs Burke of Nether Stewarton Farm, Peebles for a pair of Craigdarroch heifers by Clunie Figo. This strong trade had been preceeded by equally positive buying of in-calf heifers with all 36 forward selling to average £2,018 (up £567 for 14 more sold); achieving the top price in this section of 2,500gns were three Benhar heifers all sired by Luing Eclipse - a pair of which went to Paddy & Shiela Crerar of Newmains, Stenton and a single to David Stanners of Knowsley Park, Merseyside. Bulls completed the sale with a steady trade of 19 of the 24 forward clearing to average £4,136 (up £167 for 3 more sold); the impressive top price of 13,000gns being laid out by E.J. & A.M. Fox of College Luings, Wooler for Benhar Kansas, the second youngest bull in the sale who was sired by the joint breed record holder Dirnanean Geldof (sold in 2007 for 14,000gns) and out of a home-bred Benhar cow. Click the link below to read the full sale report.
Premier Sale 2010
The report from our 45th Premier Sale held on Friday 5th February at Wallets Mart, Castle Douglas is now available. Click here to download.
Another first for Luings on cattle health
The Luing breed will once again be at the forefront of positive moves on cattle health for their 45th Premier Sale taking place at Wallets Mart on Friday 5th February. In implementing a new policy, thought to be a first for the industry, all 199-head of pedigree Luing cattle entered are coming from 22 herds which are all members of CHeCS accredited health schemes..........click here to read the full press release.
New Health Initiative launched
The Luing Cattle Society have revealed their latest tactic to ensure they continue to lead the way in the drive to produce healthy, efficient and profitable cattle for the beef industry. The initiative, announced at the Society’s Open Day hosted by Charles & Mary Symons at Attonburn in the Cheviot Hills, will ensure that...Read More...
New Luing web site now launched
Action-packed and highly accessible, our new web site designed by www.purplethistlepr.co.uk certainly fulfils its role in promoting the breed's profile. As you can see, it contains a host of new features including up-to-the-minute news, sale and event details, breed development information, a complete list of breeders split up by county, Luing publications... Read More...
