Midford Herefords

One year on!

One year ago today Midford 1 Ravette 1st won female champion at Agri Expo, today we have a full brother running around the calf pen! Ravette is a serious producer for us and is one of our leading donor cows! At 10 years old she still has a flawless udder and is still a powerhouse.

Looking forward to seeing this lad grow…

A couple of weeks ago we said goodbye to our stockbull - Kinglee 1 The New One! After two crops of calves, with a third crop on the way he has really made a mark at Midford.

We can’t wait to see his daughters become the backbone of our herd, we have high hopes for the cows they’ll become. We also have a really promising group of bulls coming through from him this year, we hope to get these out to calf shows in coming months.

We would like to wish Lloyd and Rhian Williams at Wilcourt Herefords all the best with him!

Midford 1 Brownie 1st also joined the Wilcourt herd as she was unable to travel to NI following her sale in DGS23 with Bluetongue Restrictions.

Very excited to be representing the UK Hereford Youth and Hereford Cattle Society at the World Hereford Conference next year! Truly honoured to be selected from an outstanding youth programme here in the UK!

We are excited to announce that after careful consideration, our team heading to the next World Hereford Conference in Kansas City, USA is -

Will Awan
Cara Doggett
Ethan Brook
Iona Smith
Emma Dexter

They, alongside five other applicants have been put through their paces to secure their place on the team. Our judges said that the overall standard was very high and it was a very close competition.

The team will look forward to attending.

Hereford Cattle Society UK
World Hereford Council
American Hereford Association

Last month we were delighted to break the public record for an Exmoor Horn female (excluding the charity lot)! Our show shearling ewe from this year sold for 320gns to W Howard. Our second yearling ewe also sold for 280gns to H Ellis.

On the tup side of things our yearling tup sold away to D Loosemore & J Edwards, we can’t wait to see what he can do here!

We have been busy selling from home with 2 groups of ewe lambs sold and our pick of the tup lamb sold to a top pedigree flock. We have one quality ewe lamb remaining for sale this year.

Thanks must go to dad for single handedly taking my team of sheep & running them through the ring, absolute legend!

Great to welcome a group of Danish Hereford friends across for a herd tour today! Thank you for taking the time to come and visit our herd.

A great end to the summer show season for Elke at the National Poll Show!

First in the March heifer class, she then won champion in a strong intermediate female section! She then took Reserve Overall Female Champion!

Well done to Rempstone and Spartan for top honours! Thanks to Ethan & dad for your help. Now to start thinking about the calf shows…

A successful run east to Edenbridge and Oxted show! Elke took Reserve Female Champion and Native Junior Heifer Sweepstake Champion.

Well done to Rempstone for Champion Hereford and Interbreed, it was a pleasure to be involved. Many thanks to Johnny Ward for transport when I was up at a fantastic UK Hereford Youth development day in Lancashire.

Without a doubt one of the best tups we have bred…

🐏 Lot 180 - Shearling Ram - W Awan 🐏

Lot 180 was 1st placed shearling ram and Reserve Male Champion at Royal Welsh Show 2024. Sire is homebred he was Male Champion at the Royal Welsh 2019, also bred the Devon County Champion & Mid Devon Champion 2021 and Dunster Show champion 2023. The last lamb from one of the most successful ewes in the flock, she bred a 920gns tup sold in 2018, and the Mid Devon Show Champion 2021.

Exmoor Horn Early Sale
🗓️Friday 23rd August
🌍 Cutcombe Market

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A strong final show for the sheep team this year!

Our team of Exmoor Horns & Kerry Hills headed down to Dunster Show. In the Kerry rings our homebred ewe lamb Midford Eclair won the Ewe Lamb Class, Female and Breed Champion a great end to a successful year for her. Our new stockram Marlbrook Django won 1st in the Yearling/Aged Ram Class before taking Male Champion and Reserve breed. A strong entry of Kerrys it is getting bigger year on year.

Across in the Exmoor Horns it wasn't our year to be in the top prizes but we had a number of sheep in the ribbons, many of these forward for the Society Early Sale next week, including a yearling ewe that was 4th out of around 30. More details about the sale sheep to come...

Long trip down to Pembrokeshire County Show proved worthwhile! Midford 1 Elke won a class of 9 yearling heifers, before taking Female & then Breed Champion under judge Adam Bowen.

She then went into the Interbreed where she won Supreme Beef Interbreed, under judge Clive Roads.

She also represented the breed in the team of 5 where they took Reserve Interbreed Team of 5.

Thanks to everyone down in West Wales for making me so welcome, well done to The Thorne family for Reserve!

A hot trip up to Burwarton for Midford 1 Elke in some very competitive Hereford classes! Was absolutely delighted to be awarded Breed Champion by judge Nick Griffiths! Later being awarded Native Interbreed Champion awarded by Paul Walker. Elke was in the Hereford team of 4 which was awarded Reserve Champion. Well done to Rempstone for Reserve in the Breed.

Well done to all other winners, and thanks to Burwarton show, without a doubt one of the best one day shows we’ve attended!

Midford 1 Brownie 2nd catching the eye when checking the girls this morning! Her maternal sister sold to Uel Shaw in DGS 2024 for 3000gns and this Brownie is sired by Kinglee 1 The New One.

Great craic, great results, great week…

In the Hereford rings our heifer Elke won:
🏅 1st in her jan-march class
🏆 Junior Champion
🏆 Female Champion
🏆 Exhibitor Bred Champion
🏆 Reserve Hereford Champion

Over in the Exmoor horn rings our team won:
🏅1st Aged Ewe
🏅1st Shearling Ram
🏅3rd Ram Lamb
🏆 Reserve Male Champion
🏆 Female Champion
🏆 Reserve Breed Champion
🏆 Champion Group

Our Kerry Ewe lamb won 5th in an incredible show of Kerry’s!

Thanks to all those that helped both inside and outside the ring, really appreciated it! Well done to the Bowens, The Buckinghams and The Owen’s for their Breed Champions!

A great week at GYS 2024

In the Kerry rings our sole entry was Midford Eclair who took first prize once more in the ewe lamb class with 12 forward this time.

In the Hereford ring Midford 1 Elke was Second in the Jan- March class. She then teamed up with 3 other superb Junior animals to win Interbreed Junior Team of 4.

It was a joy to show Chris’ shearling ewe who won Interbreed Champion out of 3000 sheep, well done mate!

Thanks to all that supported this week, especially Fin Soutter, Hollie Ascroft and Charlie Whybrow for your help in the ring! Always one of the favourite shows with so much support from the family, thanks to all that came!

🏡 High Health Recipients for new homes 🏡

4 Danish Bred Montbeliarde heifer recipients tested free of:
Lepto
Johnes
IBR
BVD
Neospora

Imported from one clean unit in Denmark, they have received one embryo in each but have scanned empty, implant now will mean calving out of season for us. Vet checked and cycling well, really quiet and well grown, absolutely ideal for the job.

💰1500/head ONO

Three animals in the team last week for 3 Counties but they still delivered…

Midford 1 Elke 1st won a strong class of 23’ spring born heifers, before winning Junior Female Champion, Reserve Junior Champion & Reserve Female Champion! It was also a milestone for Midford with our first time representing the breed in the Burke Trophy pairs, alongside a great young bull from Rempstone.

Success was also seen in the sheep rings, with our two Kerry Hill Females. The shearling ewe won a strong class of shearlings before taking Female and a Reserve Breed Champion. Our ewe lamb, took first placed ewe lamb and Reserve Female Champion.

Thank you to all those that helped during the week, really couldn’t have managed without! A great week had once again, next stop Yorkshire…

𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝘽𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙬!

Midford 1 Elke our March Hereford Heifer won the 2024 heifer class she then went on to take:

🏆- Female Champion
🏆- Breed Champion
🏆- Reserve Overall Interbreed Native Champion
🏆- Interbreed Junior Native Heifer Champion
🏆- Interbreed Junior Champion

In the sheep lines we had some great success:

🏆- Kerry Hill Reserve Female Champion
🏆- Kerry Hill Female Champion
🏆- Kerry Hill Reserve Breed Champion
🏆- Kerry Hill Breed Champion

Absolutely great show again, hard to beat the atmosphere at our local Royal Show!

The main man of Midford looking well out with the cows for the third time! Been outwintered, and looks to have done him no harm…

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One month old today!

Bombastic - our ET bullcalf from Broatch June is growing like an absolute w**d on his hereford surrogate dam, can’t wait to see how he progresses!

Whilst we no longer have any Traditional Herefords here at Midford, it brings us great joy to see our females go on and look so well for their owners! Great udder and true Traditional type!

Poser of the day: Midford Paloma.
100% Traditional Hereford styling 👌

A great start to Monday with this little heifer arriving from Coley 1 Clara 409 one of our original foundation cows! Great to have another heifer calf to carry on this fantastic female line…

Selection of breeding females for sale off farm!

Maiden heifers, incalf and calved females available from some of our most successful lines! Including Kates, Emma Janes & Rosies! Reasonably priced.

Selection of young Hereford heifers also suitable as recipients also available, high health and from milky dams.

🏆 Reserve Interbreed for ‘Elke’ 🏆

The first of our shows, for our sole show heifer this year, Midford 1 Elke 1st debut proved to be successful! This March heifer placed first in her class of 7 yearling heifers, before being tapped out as Breed Champion! She then went into the Interbreed and we were delighted when she won Reserve Native & Reserve Interbreed champion!

Well done to Millie & Boomer for the outstanding interbreed cow, thank you to Chris Mitchell for taking the time to Judge. And huge thanks to Ethan Brook for an expert job leading her!