Jeffreys earn success at Agriscot

Event organisers have hailed the annual Agriscot event yesterday at Ingliston outside Edinburgh a big success.

Commenting after his first year at the helm, chairman Robert Neill said organising the event – which saw attendance up, trade stands at capacity with a waiting list of 30, and an increase in exhibitors in the hotly contested dairy lines – had been a real team effort.

In the farm of the year awards, the Agriscot Scotch Beef Farm of the Year award went to Biel- grange near Dunbar, run by Niall Jeffrey, pictured, in partnership with his father Angus. The family runs two spring calving herds over three farm units. The 300-hectare lowland Bielgrange farm and 240-hectare upland Weatherly farm run 250 Aberdeen Angus cross sucklers. The business also contract farms 160 Aberdeen Angus cross suckler cows at Halls Farm. Niall Jeffrey said: “We were honoured just to be nominated for the Scotch Beef Farm of the Year award but to become a finalist, and then go on to win, makes me even more proud of our team.”