BCCS September Newsletter 2022

Numbers were sprayed on the animals that correlated to the animals in the booklet with all their
information.
A parting gift package was presented to everyone including
a notepad, thankyou card, fridge magnet, pen and fudge
After breakfast, we boarded two buses
and headed north about 60 miles to the
Cayler Farm, owned by the Barker Family. In
Charolais for nearly 50 years, Greta Barker
has been on many Congresses, and we got to
see her family farm run by David and Louise
Barker. David is also on the British Charolais
Society board. Running about 40 cows, 1000
acres of arable crops and a haylage enterprise,
they have a very good operation with set
goals on what they want in their herd. When
we arrived, we were given a 52-page booklet
that had every animal listed on its own page,
just like a sale catalogue, with their pedigree,
EBVs and pedigree of the calf, if there was
one at side, along with a QR code that you
could scan to go to the animals records online.
After a great pig roast lunch, we boarded
the buses for a two-hour ride to the
Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Garden.
Once one of the country’s most formidable
medieval fortresses, the castle was later
transformed into a spectacular Elizabethan
palace. From there we travelled to Telford
and checked into our hotel for two nights.
Anna Ingvar-Nilsson, Sweden (right) presents the country gifts to the Barker family for hosting us
Elizabethan Gardens at the Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle ruins
Another angle of the Kenilworth Castle and as one delegate called this trip
Cows & Castle tour
- No bull works harder for the farmer, the plate and the planet - 67
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