We farm: 75 acres, with 55 acres of this being rented and 20 acres owned. We started out farming in our own right in our 20s; leasing ground and milking dairy Shorthorn cows in a retired dairy farmer’s parlour. We were ahead of our time with share farming. We continue with dairy Shorthorns right up until 2008, when we sold the herd and concentrated our efforts on the pedigree Limousins.Getting in to pedigrees: We bought our first pedigree heifer in Roscrea in 1998 and we paid £3,100 for her, which was a fair sum of money in 1998. She was a two-year-old when we bought her and she was here until she was 16. The year after we bought her, we sent her to Cork for flushing, and we had some of the calves from her up until 2015 from the flushes. We bought another heifer the year after, with five more females purchased in England in 2005 from the Greenwell herd.