The recently formed Scottish Beef Association (SBA) is to hold its first specialist event next spring.
It will be held on Wednesday May 27at Mains of Mause, Blairgowrie, where Peter and Murray Alexander run a suckler herd of 1,000 Limousin cross cows and a commercial flock of 2,000 Blackface and Mule ewes extending over four units.
The organising committee will be chaired by well-known Luing cattle breeder Robert McNee, of Over Finlarg, Tealing, Dundee.
Adopting the theme of beef from the hills, the event is being designed to demonstrate all the latest technologies for sustainable beef production.
“The opportunity of viewing Mains of Mause, with its reputation for the production of high quality cattle and
sheep, will be a major attraction for livestock farmers and we are grateful to the Alexander family for kindly agreeing to host this important event for the Scottish
beef industry,” said SBA vice-chairman Jim Stewart, Kinbroon, Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire.
Host farmer Peter Alexander said the aim was to hand the organisation of the event over to the younger generation who see their future in beef production.
“We will be five months into the new Common Agricultural Policy at the time of the event and Robert McNee will lead a team of enthusiastic younger farmers with new ideas to demonstrate how beef production can be made profitable and the relentless downward trend in suckler cow numbers in Scotland reversed,” said Mr
Alexander.
Mains of Mause was the venue for NSA Scotsheep in 2002 and in recent years has also hosted the International Limousin Congress and the annual British Grassland Society tour.