The great and the good of Northern Ireland agriculture where out in force on Saturday night to celebrate a big roundy birthday for Clogher Mart’s Edwin Boyd.
Friends and family from as far away as Argentina and Australia made the journey to the big event.
The event, held at Edwin and Gail’s home just outside Clogher, saw beef from the Boyd farm laid on for friends and acquaintances.
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Clogher Mart was set up in 1954 when Edwin was still in single digit figures.
He regaled stories of his first selling experience in his late teens when he sold a black whitehead bull calf in the mart setting him up for a life time of selling animals for farmers.
He also remembers purchasing a red whitehead heifer calf making a profit of £1.50 when it was sold. Not much has changed in 70 years of beef farming.
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The great and the good of Northern Ireland agriculture where out in force on Saturday night to celebrate a big roundy birthday for Clogher Mart’s Edwin Boyd.
Friends and family from as far away as Argentina and Australia made the journey to the big event.
The event, held at Edwin and Gail’s home just outside Clogher, saw beef from the Boyd farm laid on for friends and acquaintances.
Clogher Mart was set up in 1954 when Edwin was still in single digit figures.
He regaled stories of his first selling experience in his late teens when he sold a black whitehead bull calf in the mart setting him up for a life time of selling animals for farmers.
He also remembers purchasing a red whitehead heifer calf making a profit of £1.50 when it was sold. Not much has changed in 70 years of beef farming.
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