Sixth World Hereford Conference
The sixth World Hereford Conference in South Africa.
The sixth World Hereford Conference in South Africa.
Publication of the centenary edition of the herd book.
50th anniversary of the premier show and sale in Hereford.
Rules introduced allowing the limited registration of calves got by artificial insemination.
Death of Mr EO Jones, OBE, Sheephouse, Hay-on-Wye.
A poll steer, Crickley 1 Blazer, owned by Messrs HA Colburn and son Ltd, wins the supreme beef breed championship at the Royal Smithfield Show.
620 bulls and females gross over £202,200 to average over £320, sold through Edinburgh Market during the year ended 31 October 1969.
Rt Hon the Earl of Avon becomes patron of the society subsequent to the death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal in 1965.
Fifth World Hereford Conference is held in Australia, with the associations of Mexico, Portugal and Spain elected to membership. At this conference, a permanent international working group is formed to work out ways and means the immense genetical potential of the Hereford breed should be put to good use throughout the world.
Hereford Herd Book Society starts the first performance testing station at Holme Lacy.
A poll, North Clifton 1 Lass 14th of Cerezo Estates and Farming Co Ltd, becomes female of the year for the first time.
Dispersal of the world famous Vern herd. 136 lots produce a record sale aggregate of £230,706 and a world record average of £1,696 7s.4d. for a sale of horned Herefords. Vern Scorpio breaks the 20 year old record for the highest price realised at auction when sold for 15,000gns. Lynda Vern 35th breaks the record price for a heifer calf by auction, when sold for 1,500 gns. Plum Vern 33rd makes a new record price for an in-calf heifer of 2,600gns. 2,200gns, is paid for Curly Vern 112th to create a new unserved heifer record, and the highest price ever paid for a bull calf was realised for Vern Sirdar which made 4,500gns.
Captain RS de Q Quincy of the Vern herd dies.
A Hereford wins the supreme beef championship at the Royal Smithfield Show for the first time since 1900. The animal is 21 month old heifer Barnoldby Orange Miss, exhibited by Messrs Osmond and son, Grimsby.
The fourth World Hereford Conference is held in Ireland and the American Poll Hereford Association is elected to membership.
A team of four Herefords win the interbreed beef championship at the Royal Highland for the first time ever. The Hereford Herd Book Society commences its own weight recording scheme within breeders’ own herds.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal becomes the patron of the society.
Vern Logic sells to Sir Ellerton Becker of Aldersend, Tarrington, Hereford, for the record price of £20,000.