Livestock Sales UK - Borderway News December 2003

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DECEMBER 2003

Harrison & Hetherington introduces new measures to help Livestock marketing
To provide greater flexibility to clients for the marketing of their livestock Harrison & Hetherington has announced that, from January 1st 2004, all its sales centres will operate under general market licence whereby the six day standstill rule is adopted due to ongoing Defra regulations...more>>

Paul Stobart has faith in the Charolais
Fast finishing quality suckled calves will be in even greater demand post CAP reform when beef farmers stop chasing BSP payments and finish their cattle to target weight in the shortest possible time, says Paul Stobart...more>>

Severe penalties face poor record keepers
Inspecting 'the movement book' is a core activity when Trading Standards carry out a routine inspection on your farm, writes Graham Winder, of Cumbria Trading Standards...more>>

Children in Need

H&H staff Heather Pritchard, Lynne Grieve, Gillian Skelton and Anne Armstrong got into the spirit of the Christmas Cracker show and sale on the same day and, dressed as St Trinians girls, raised more than £500 for the children’s charity.

Alan Harrison
It is with great sadness that the H&H Group reports the death of Allan Harrison, chairman of Broughton Auction Mart Company on November 7th...more>>

Log-on to Learndirect
Too busy or concerned about the cost of new training? Did you know there is an online flexible training initiative sponsored by the government specifically aimed at land based industries?..more>>

Annual General Meeting
The H&H Group has continued to trade profitably in the three months to the end of September, Group chief executive Trevor Hebdon told the annual general meeting on October 31st 2003. The meeting, which was held in the refurbished H&H King Cumbria Auction Rooms in Lowther Street, Carlisle was well attended by shareholders who also enjoyed a presentation by Howard Naylor and Paul Laidlaw of H&H King...more>>

Fun day:
A tense moment for BBC Radio Cumbria presenter Val Armstrong, top right, as she knocks down the calf at 420gns in the dispersal sale of Matthew and Catherine Ralston’s Rhoin herd of pedigree Holsteins and Jerseys from Campbelltown, Argyll.

H&H hosts ILC Dinner and Elite Sale
As part of the International Limousin Congress next summer (2004), Harrison & Hetherington has been invited to stage a congress dinner and elite sale of British Limousin cattle and genetics at Borderway, Carlisle. For the first time in two decades Britain and the BLCS have been chosen to host the international congress in the summer of 2004...more>>

Roland Murray
Well-known Harrison & Hetherington employee Roland Murray, who worked as ledger clerk until his retirement in September 1987, died in October...more>>

Plenty to smile about:
Dot Goldie, who works part time for Harrison & Hetherington at Lockerbie Mart, took over as secretary of the Galloway Cattle Society earlier this year and was pleased with the success of her first Carlisle sale.

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