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Six Top Herds Go For Gold

4 August 2011

This year’s NMR/RABDF Gold Cup will be strongly contested. Six top herds are in the final round, having achieved the qualifying criteria from a pool of all milk recorded herds in Britain, and then capturing the judges’ eye with their dairy business and plans for the future.

The six herds are:
• Chris Simmons, Simmons Farms Ltd, Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs
• King Family, Vortex Holsteins Ltd, Martinstown, Dorchester, Dorset
• Tim Gue, Huddlestone Farm, Horsham Road, Steyning, West Sussex
• Kevin Jones, Bryn Mawr Farm, Starkey Lane, Northop, Flintshire
• Christopher and Ray Gasson, Redlands Farm, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire
• Mike, Shan, Paul and Steve Miller, Greville Hall Farm, Evesham, Worcestershire

The competition’s qualifying criteria specify that herds should be of more than 100 cows/heifers with qualifying lactations in the milking herd, an annual SCC average of 200,000/ml or less for the recording year ending 30 September 2010 and less than 400,000/ml for organic herds and a minimum £PLI value specific to the breed.

Finalists will be judged by this year’s judges: David Cotton: Chairman of the RABDF and Chairman of judges, Trevor Lloyd Non Exec Director: NMR and Nick Cobb winner of the Gold Cup competition in 2008.

The winner will be announced at the Dairy Event, NEC on Tuesday September 6 on the NMR stand at 4.30pm along with the winner of the Chris May Memorial Salver, which will be awarded to the Gold Cup qualifying herd with the highest average lifetime daily yield.

For more information on the finalists, please click here.

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