Decide for 2023 Baileys cow competitors named

The Baileys cow competitors returns to Virginia Present as soon as once more for 2023, with this 12 months marking the occasion’s eightieth anniversary.

The present attracts breeders from throughout the island, to showcase a number of the high Holstein cows within the nation.

Finally 12 months’s occasion, the Diageo Baileys champion cow prize was received by Co. Down breeders Sam and John McCormick with their entry Hilltara Undenied Apple VG89, chosen by choose David Sales space from Feizor Holsteins.

She was additionally named as champion Junior cow ultimately 12 months’s occasion in Virginia.

Reserve Champion title to Hallow Atwood Twizzle 1191 EX90 from Co. Wexford breeders Philip and Linda Jones from Hallow Holstein.

Honourable Point out was given to Baldonnel Brady Hailey from Co. Dublin breeder John Dowling.

Baileys cow

One of many principal sights of the Virginia Present is the Baileys cow competitors, with an elevated prize fund to mark the 40^th 12 months of the competitors.

The breeder of the Bailey Champion will obtain a €3,000 prize, adopted by €1,500 and €800 for Reserve Champion and Honourable Point out respectively.

Different awards will likely be introduced throughout a number of classes, together with Junior Cows of their second lactation; the Finest Junior Cow class has prizes price €1,550 in complete and the favored Finest-Heifer-in-milk class carries a fund of €1,550 with 1^st place price €750.

The choose of this 12 months’s Diageo Baileys Champion Cow in partnership with Tirlán has been named as Mark Logan from Co. Down.

Logan is the supervisor of well-known Clandeboye Property which is located simply outdoors Bangor.

He’s no stranger to this ‘all-Eire’ competitors having received the Reserve Champion prize himself in 2008.

He additionally labored as an agriculture scholar of CAFRE Greenmount on the Ballymoney farm of the very first choose of ‘The Baileys’, Bertie Kerr.

Commenting on his function as choose 40 years on, and the vital job that lies forward in Co. Cavan on August 23, he stated: “It’s an honour to be requested to evaluate the Diageo Baileys Champion Cow.

“The competition is thought to be essentially the most prestigious throughout the summer season present circuit on the island of Eire – it constantly attracts solely top-class cows.

“I will likely be searching for the breeder who can present me the ‘full bundle’ within the parade ring.

“The successful cow this August must have all of it – steadiness, dairy energy, high quality by means of the udder and nice locomotion.”

Pedigree breeding

Initially from Co. Antrim, Mark Logan has judged many exhibits in Northern Eire in addition to the Irish Holstein Friesian Affiliation (IHFA) Emerald Expo occasion.

In Nice Britain he has judged Holsteins on the Royal Highland Present; All-breeds on the AgriScot and will likely be on the Royal Welsh Present subsequent week judging the Dairy Interbreeds.

He has been managing the 670ac Clandeboye Property farm since 1991.

He and his staff have constructed up a powerful pedigree herd of 70 Holstein and 30 Jersey cows that boasts a lineage that goes again to the famend Holstein households (Rosinas and Willows) and Jersey households (Evitas and Marbles) and produces 2,500L of milk per day on common.

Atmosphere and financial sustainability go hand-in-hand in Mark’s administration of the property with a round financial system resolution of an anaerobic digester put in in 2016.

It now fuels 100% of the property’s electrical energy necessities and nearly all of its heating and sizzling water.