APRIL 2016 DAIRY NEWSLETTER Membership Fee Please

pay your Membership Fee for 2016 if you haven't already done so as any outstand-ing fees will delay your registrations from being actioned. However to help make this process easier we now have the facili-ty to pay invoices via card over the phone, just call Sue in the office and the procedure only takes a few minutes. Journal 2017

We are already compiling reports for the next journal, if you have any Regional events or herd competitions results please let us have reports and photos as soon as possible after the event. Please remember that if you judge a show then a Judges re-port is expected to be submitted to Claire in the office to enhance the results and photos in the Journal and provide the members with some details from the show. The re-port only needs to be brief similar to previ-ous reports in the past journals.

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Calendar Our Dairy Calendar

which shows all the years events on the website can now be viewed via your mobile via the Shorthorn Website. If you have any events which you would like adding to the calendar to promote an event please call Claire in the office.

Closure of The Coates

Herd Book Please find enclosed

a letter regarding the closure of the Coates Herd book to outside blood.

Emails If you have an email

address please can you email :- Claire@shorthorn.co.uk so we can update our records and keep you up to date with information fast and efficiently.

Herd Books We have been advised

about a collection of Herd Books from 1930

to 1950. If you are interested in acquiring

the books , which are free to a good home

please call Clyde Hoddinott, on 07711

290481. The books would have to be col-

lected from their address in Devizes, Wilt-

shire.

Welcome to Milly the New

Chief Executive Milly Fyfe has been

appointed chief executive of the Shorthorn and Beef Shorthorn Cattle Societies from 1 June 2016. She succeeds Frank Milnes who is retiring at the end of July after 16 years. A former National Fed-eration of Young Farmers Clubs’ chairman, Milly moves from the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Insti-tution where Milly has held the position of East Mid-land’s regional manager for eight years. Outside her work commitments, Milly represents various farming organisations including Love British Food fortnight and Tesco Future Farmers Foundation. Milly is a member of Ladies in Beef, a former direc-tor of the Oxford Farming Conference and enjoys writing for and representing agriculture amongst the mainstream and farming media. In 2014, Milly was presented with an inspirational award for wom-en for her dedicated commitment and advocacy work to the charity sector and farming industry. Milly and her husband Andrew live on the family’s Northamptonshire based beef, sheep and arable farm. Milly’s eagerness, tenacity and purpose to deliver make her the right person for this job.

Great Yorkshire Show

BBQ 12th-14th July We are de-

lighted to announce that there will be a “Shorthorn Summer BBQ” on Tuesday 12

th

July at the Calder Room in the Pavillions at the Great Yorkshire Showground. This event has been planned to mark the retirement of Frank Milnes. Drinks will be provided on arrival at 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Tickets cost £22.00 per person so please contact office to order your tickets ASAP as final numbers must be pre-sented to the Great Yorkshire Show by 1

st July.

2016. We hope that you can join us for this special occasion.

Shorthorn Breeds

share the ring For the first

time in the Shorthorn Society History, it will put groups of Dairy Shorthorn and Beef Shorthorn together in the show ring this summer. The animals will be presented together for a competition at The Great Yorkshire Show on Weds July 13

th at

12.noon. It will be judged by Bill Cowling, the Yorkshire Ag. Soc. former Show Direc-tor and is being organised as a special trib-ute to the Shorthorn Society Secretary Frank Milnes as he moves towards his re-tirement from the role after 16 years during which time he has made a major contribu-tion to promoting both breeds.

The Shorthorn Society

4th Street, Stoneleigh Park,

Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2LG

Tel 02476 696549

Email. Claire@shorthorn.co.uk

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Registrations and

Transfers Please continue to send

in your registrations regularly to avoid late fees also transfer any animals into your herd at the same time, this is still currently free to do. If you require paper registrations slips please call the office or we can set your membership to be able to accept registra-tions Online. The procedure is simple to learn but please call Claire if you require any assistance. Invoices will be issued in the usual way and can now be paid by card over the phone.

Online Registrations Our

Online database has been updated so all the bulls that you will have used to register ani-mals before will be listed plus any new bulls used will be added also. The dams list will now display all the dams in your herd with an option of searching for a new dam which you may have purchased by clicking on the bin-ocular symbol. On acceptance of the regis-tration the dam will be transferred into your dam list. You will then receive a Transfer Pedigree Certificate for the Dam along with the pedigree certificate for the calf registered. For both the Sire and the Dam lists the ani-mals can be searched for either by the Herd book number, some of all of the eartag or name. Please call Claire if you experience any difficulties using the system.

Deceased animals In order to

keep our database as accurate as possible please inform us of any animals which have died.

Red Cattle Genetics Please find enclosed the latest RCG brochure

displaying all the current PTA and EBVs figures plus 3 bulls now offering Sex Semen: 1.Churchroyd Wild Card, Dam (photo 1) Churchroyd Bronte Wildeyes 31st VG89. 2. Rodway Ronson, Dam (photo 2) Rodway Red Rose 3) Churchroyd Percy, Dam (photo 3) Churchroyd Peggy 15.

AGM and Judging Day

This event takes place on Saturday 18th June 2016 at Chichester College. The timetable for day as follows:

12.00pm AGM 12.30pm lunch 1.15pm Judging discussion and compe-tition followed by herd inspection. 5.00 pm approx. young handlers cattle preparation and handling followed by

BBQ.

The farm address Stable Barn Farm, Black-gate Lane, Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 1DD. If anyone wants to book ac-commodation at the college please email: Daniel.Stamper@chichester.ac.uk They have some rooms available on site, they are single rooms @ £30 per night. These are on the campus which is a different address RH20 1DL. It’s a 10 mi-nute walk over the field’s from farm to cam-pus. If any adults wanting to stay over there is a Travelodge just 10 minutes from the farm at

https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/13/Billingshurst-Five-Oaks-hotel

If you are coming by train the nearest sta-tion is Billingshurst which is about 5 mins by car from the campus and about 45 mins from Gatwick by train. Pick-ups / drop offs can be arranged by contact Daniel Stamp-er. If you could let Claire in the office know if you have people that would like to attend for catering numbers.

Events 2016 Summer Show & Sale at Beeston Cattle Market:

Friday 10th June 2016. There will be a coloured

breeds sale there too.

AGM & Judging Day: Saturday 18th June 2016

National Cheshire Show: Tuesday 21st & Wednes-

day 22nd June 2016

Royal Highland Show: Thursday 23rd June 2016 to

Sunday 26th June 2016

Great Yorkshire Show: Tuesday 12th July to

Thursday 14th July

Royal Welsh Show: Monday 18th July to Thursday

21st July 2016

UK Dairy Day @ Telford: Wednesday 14th Septem-

ber 2016

The Dairy Show @ Bath and West show ground:

Wednesday 5th October 2016

All Breeds All Britain calf show @ Three Counties

Showground, Malvern 15th & 16th October 2016

Autumn Show & Sale @ Beeston Cattle Market:

Friday 21st October 2016

Milk Records In order for your milk

records to be maintained on your animals pedi-

gree certificates please can you make sure that

the Herd Book Numbers on which the details

are sent to NMR or CIS are correct as they use

this number to import the information into our

database and if the number is incorrect the milk

records will not be linked to the animals details

and this will cause lactation information to be

missing of your animals pedigree certificate. If

you have any certificates with missing lactation

records please check with your milk recording

company that they have the correct number

then call Claire and a new certificate can be

issued.