LIMOUSIN cattle with Djerk bloodlines continue to prove their consistency as prime carcase animals, winning the supreme championship at the National Festival of Meat.
The premier carcase competition, staged by the Royal Smithfield Club at Smithfield Market in London, has been won by a Djerk grandson. This 20-month-old, Limousin steer, owned by Julian and Cliff Hopwood of Clock Farm, Grimston, Dunnington, York, sold for £5,000. The 356kg carcase was classified at U-4L.
The steer was bought in May at Bishop's Castle from Mr Jack Bedell and his son, Simon, who run the pedigree Wintles herd and who have supplied four Smithfield supreme championship carcase winners to the Hopwoods in the last decade.
Mr Jack Bedell's son, William, imported Djerk as an eight-month-old calf for his Staveley herd in Powys in 1988, together with David and Evan Matthews, of the Greenfield herd. For two years he was the top Signet recorded muscle scoring bull. In 1992 he was sold in Carlisle to Scottish breeders Mr Alan Fotheringham of Perth and Mr Keith Redpath of Berwick
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