Premier Sale Feature - CRAIGDARROCH LUINGS

The Graham family moved to Craigdarroch in 2000. At the time Craigdarroch ran 1650 Blackface ewes and although it had previously run Luing cows, they had been sold off before we moved down. It was a few years later that we realised the hill would benefit from having cattle grazing it and after considering a few other breeds and listening to the advice of my dad's cousin Willie Graham of Ravensneuk, Luings seemed the obvious choice.

Craigdarroch is a hill farm with a good, fairly dry hill but it has limited in-bye ground so we needed a breed that would thrive out on the hill all year round. We slowly built up our numbers to about 55-60 cows which we felt was the ideal number for grazing the hill but not too many for making too much of a mess over the winter months. At the time, I had no real interest in cattle and it was just a cow to graze the hill. I never imagined that we would get as involved in the breed by firstly selling heifers at Stirling to a few year later selling heifers and then bulls at Castle Douglas.

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