Outcomes: ‘Very particular cow’ wins 2022 RUAS Winter Honest

Canadian choose Pierre Boulet, described his 2022 Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) Winter Honest interbreed champion as a “very particular cow”.

The animal in query is the Jersey fourth calver, Potterswalls Chrome Glamour.

Bred and exhibited by the Fleming household from Seaforde in Co. Down, she gave 8,000L at 6.25% fats and simply over 4% protein in her third lactation. Glamour was reserve Jersey breed champion on the 2021 Winter Honest.

She calved down for the fourth time 4 months in the past and is at the moment giving 37L/day day. Boulet described his interbreed champion as an elite cow.

“She has a wonderful mammary system with super toes and legs,” he confirmed.

RUAS Winter Honest

A local of Quebec, the Winter Honest choose milks a number of Holstein, Jersey and Brown Swiss cows.

The reserve interbreed champion from the occasion was Sterndale Colt Rae, exhibited by Liam and Sandra Murphy from Co. Carlow.

The sixth calver was additionally chosen because the occasion’s Holstein champion. She was bought from the UK’s famend Sterndale Holstein herd.

Pierre Boulet described the cow as an incredible instance of the Holstein breed with super stature, a improbable udder, plus nice toes and legs.

He particularly highlighted the manufacturing means of the cow. That is the second time that the Murphy household has received the black and white championship on the Winter Honest.

They described the present as the very best dairy occasion of the 12 months.  

A 3rd calving Holstein cow, bred and exhibited by Co. Meath-based John Dowling, was chosen because the Winter Honest interbreed championship – honourable point out.

The choose described Baldonnel Soloman Ebony as a wonderful younger cow with an incredible future.

Outlook

This 12 months’s Winter Honest attracted super crowds from throughout the island of Eire and additional afield.

The occasion is fast-turning into an all-island dairy spectacular with roughly half the cattle breeders and industrial commerce stands hailing from the Republic of Eire.

Regardless of the numerous strengthening of all enter prices throughout the dairy sector over the previous 12 months, latest analysis confirms that farmgate milk returns have elevated at charges properly above the influence of enter price inflation.

Commerce exhibitors on the 2002 RUAS Winter Honest confirmed that they did vital ranges of enterprise on the occasion.

Lots of the stands had a robust give attention to sustainability and the necessity to introduce administration programs that may and can scale back the carbon footprint of dairy farming companies.

Outcomes

The complete outcomes from the RUAS Winter Honest 2022 are as follows:

• Interbreed champion: Fleming household;
• Reserve interbreed champion: Liam and Sandra Murphy;
• Honourable point out, interbreed championship: John Dowling;
• Interbreed heifer champion: Jones Holsteins and Knowlesmere Holsteins;
• Reserve interbreed heifer champion: Fleming household;
• Honourable point out, interbreed heifer championship:  J and C Richardson;
• Interbreed junior champion: Gary and Isobel Jones;
• Reserve, interbreed junior champion: G and D Simpson;
• Honourable point out, interbreed junior championship: McLean household.

Dairy Shorthorn courses

• Champion: McLean household;
• Reserve: McLean household.

Maiden Heifer class:

1. Dawn Shorthorns;
2. Dawn Shorthorns.

Heifer in-milk class

1. McLean household;
2. McLean household.

Finest exhibitor-bred animal: McLean household. 

Heifer champion: McLean household.

Junior champion: Dawn Shorthorns.

Jersey courses

Champion: Fleming household;

Reserve: Fleming household.

Maiden heifer class

1. G and D Simpson;
2. Fleming household.

Heifer in-calf class

1. Fleming household;
2. Fleming household.

Heifer in-milk class

1. Fleming household;
2. J and C Richardson.

Junior cow in-milk class

1. Fleming household;
2. Jack King.

Senior cow in-milk class

1. Fleming household;
2. Lynch household.

Finest exhibitor-bred animal: Fleming household.

Heifer champion: Fleming household.

Reserve heifer champion: J and C Richardson.

Junior champion: G and D Simpson.

Reserve Junior champion: Fleming household.

Ayrshire Lessons

Champion: Raymond Stewart;

Reserve Champion: Raymond Stewart.

Maiden heifer class

1. McLean household;
2. Baxter, Stewart and Nyree.

Cow in-calf class

1. Raymond Stewart;
2. Baxter, Stewart and Nyree.

Heifer in-milk class

1. Christian Keenan;
2. R and C McConnell.

Cow in-milk class – second lactation

1. Rebecca Bratney and Jay Warden;
2. Christian Keenan.

Cow in-milk class – third or later lactation

1. Raymond Stewart;
2. Sam Wordsworth.

Finest exhibitor-bred animal: Raymond Stewart.

Heifer champion: Christian Keenan.

Reserve heifer champion: R and C McConnell.

Junior champion: McLean household.

Reserve Junior Champion: Baxter, Stewart and Nyree.

Holstein courses

Champion: Liam and Sandra Murphy;

Reserve champion: John Dowling.

Heifer class – born or earlier than June 1, 2022 and on or after December 1, 2021

1. S and J McCormick;
2. Ballywalter Dairies.

Heifer class – born or earlier than December 1, 2021 and on or after June 1, 2021

1. Gary and Isobel Jones;
2. Alan and William Paul.

Heifer class – born or earlier than June 1, 2021 and on or after December 1, 2020

1. Hallow Holsteins;
2. Sam and Mark McIntyre.

Junior heifer class

1. Jones Holsteins and Knowlesmere Holsteins;
2. George and Jason Sales space.

Intermediate heifer class

1. Hallow Holsteins;
2. S and J McCormick.

Senior heifer class

1. Henry and McIlhatton;
2. Henry and McIlhatton.

Cow in-milk class – two calvings

1. S and J McCormick;
2. J and C Richardson.

Cow in-milk class – two calvings (B)

1. Hallow Holsteins;
2. George and Jason Sales space.

Cow in-milk class – three calvings

1. John Dowling;
2. Hallow Holsteins.

Cow in-milk class – 4 or extra calvings

1. Liam and Sandra Murphy;
2. Simon Haffey.

Finest exhibitor-bred animal: John Dowling.

Heifer champion: Jones Holsteins and Knowlesmere Holsteins.

Reserve heifer champion: Hallow Holsteins.

Junior champion: Gary and Isobel Jones.

Reserve junior champion: William and Alan Paul.

Showmanship courses

Junior handlers class

1. Kate Jones;
2. Niamh Murphy.

Intermediate handlers class

1. Will Jones;
2. Ava Montgomery.

Senior handlers class

1. Holly Keenan;
2. Sarah Williamson.

Mature handlers class

1. Alexander Tinney;
2. Amy King.