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Sunday
25 November 2007
Yesterday's
(Saturday) re-arranged Welsh Black Cattle Society pedigree
sale at Abergavenny was a great success for all involved.
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Sunday
18 November 2007
Pictured:
Champion maiden heifer at the Carlisle Welsh Black female
sale was Waedog Catrin 62nd from Emyr Wyn Jones, which sold
for 950gns
In-calf
heifer, Waedog Alwen 28 th, led the way at the Welsh Black
Cattle Society's annual Carlisle sale – the only sale to be
held outside of Wales.
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Friday
2 November 2007
The
Dolgellau Annual Autumn Show and Sale saw Bala breeder Gwenfair
Jones and Sons of Hafod-yr-Esgob scoop 50 per cent of the
pre-sale show awards, selling a total of five heifers averaging
£1370 gns a head.
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Thursday
11 October 2007
It
was business as usual at today's (October 11) Welsh Black
Cattle Society autumn pedigree store sale at Llandovery as
buyers and vendors put the difficulties of the past few months
behind them.
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Monday 8
October 2007
Wales
' native cattle breed got back into the ring at Dolgellau
on Friday (October 5 th ) as the Welsh Black Cattle Society
resumed its sales after an absence of more than two months.
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Friday 14
September 2007
It
is a case of ‘like father like son' as Dancoed Cymro 13 th
follows in his sire's footsteps to take the title Welsh Black
Cattle Society (WBCS) Bull of the Year 2007.
Accompanying
him in the honours is Crymlyn June 3 rd , the WBCS Female
of the Year 2007.
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Monday
20 August 2007
It
may have been one of the wettest show seasons for many years
but that didn't stop Wales ' native cattle, the Welsh Blacks
winning some of the most prestigious livestock awards in England
and Wales.
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Friday
25 May 2007
Buyers
came from as farm as Cornwall and Leicestershire for today's
(Friday May 25) Welsh Black Cattle Society 's (WBCS) Pedigree
Summer Sale at Llandovery.
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Tuesday
22 May 2007
As
he prepares to embark on an antipodean adventure young Ceredigion
farmer Cennydd Eynon is next month (June) putting his herd
of pedigree Welsh Black cattle up for sale.
The
23 year-old who farms at Golygfa, Beulah, Newcastle Emlyn,
established the Dyffryn Herd in 2000 with Castell, Cennen,
Iwrch, Trefaes and Neuadd bloodlines forming the females,
and the Iwrch herd forming the bulls.
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Monday
14 May 2007
AFTER
an export break of 17 years, a consignment of Welsh Black
Cattle will leave Wales next week for farms in Denmark and
Germany .
The
export is the first for the Society since March 1990, and
the 21 pedigree breeding cattle have been specially chosen
by the European farmers from six farms in south and mid Wales.
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Sunday 13
May 2007
It
was a mixture of business and pleasure for Welsh Black Cattle
Society (WBCS) members yesterday at their annual general meeting
and dinner.
Held at the Marine
Hotel in Aberystwyth, the day saw retiring WBCS President,
Robert Williams, Penywern, Talybont, hand over his chain of
office to John Pratt, The Hillis Farm, Llanfilo, Talgarth
near Brecon.
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Friday 4
May 2007
The
bulls took the lead today (Friday, May 4 th ) as the Welsh
Black Cattle Society celebrated its 50 th Annual Spring Show
and Sale at Dolgellau.
Some
27 animals were sold including 12 bulls, with the top price
of the day going to the pre-sale show champion bull Gwern-Cynyddion
Erddyn 11 th which was sold for 4,800gns.
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Friday 19
January 2007
The
highest priced animal of the day ay 13,500gns was the Champion
Bull – Hafodesgob Cawr (Vol 95) bred and sold by Mrs
Gwenfair Jones and Sons, Hafod-yr-Esgob Isaf, Bala.
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Wednesday
10 January 2007
After
five years of promotion, marketing, and creating awareness
of their beef, the Welsh Black Cattle Society's Organic Club
has held a celebratory dinner.
The
Organic Club now boasts 70 members – approximately 18%
of the Society's members as a whole – and more than
half turned out for the event at the Fronolau Farm Hotel at
Tabor near Dolgellau, where they dined on what else but organic
Welsh Black Beef.
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