Crawford Brothers to exhibit at Paris Show

Crawford Brothers will be the first livestock breeders from the UK to show cattle from the AI stud Cogent, outside the British Isles.

Our bull Sauvignon will travel to the French Sima show in Villepinte on the out skirts of Paris. The show, which is one of the biggest livestock and machinery shows in the world, starts on the 4th March and runs to 8th March 2007 and, with over 100 entries in the Limousin section we will be taking on some of the top Limousin breeders in France.

We took the decision last October to take on this mammoth task, and due to the tremendous help and support from Defra in London; the paperwork has been straightforward.

Sauvignon

We will also have a trade stand at the show, where there will be inward buying missions from the likes of Mexico and other countries. We want to tap into these markets as well as meeting our existing customers from the eastern European countries and following up on our business with them.

We always like to set the bar higher and meet new challenges in the livestock sector head on, and if we manage to be in the top line up, we will be very happy.

We have also been offered help from the British Embassy in France as well from the UK trade and investment and British Livestock Genetics. We are looking forward to this challenge and it will be a major boost to, not only to the Limousin breed it will highlight, but Northern Ireland genetics as well.

Vigot, our young bull was also entered for the show, but due to the demand of sexed semen, he will stay at the Cogent stud. We will use the show to showcase the sexed semen from the only 2 Limousin bulls in the world currently involved in the venture, and the first of any beef breed in Europe.