The Border Aberdeen Angus club was founded in 1966 following concerns expressed by two highly successsful local breeders, Billy Arnott, Haymount, Kelso, and the late Tom Brewis, Eastfield of Lempitlaw, Kelso, that the lucrative post-war market for Aberdeen-Angus cattle to North and South America was on the wane and more needed to be done to promote the breed to commercial suckler herds in the face of strong competition from the Hereford, soon to be followed by the Continental breeds.
On June 28 the club was formally constituted at a meeting in Kelso’s Ednam House Hotel with Mr Brewis as chairman and Jim Stobo, then of Fishwick, Berwick on Tweed, as vice-chairman.
But the driving force behind the success of the club has been breed enthusiast and historian, Rainy Brown, Easter Hendersyde, Kelso, who was secretary of the club from its inception.
Over the years, the club has organised countless promotional events for the Aberdeen-Angus breed – with commercial beef producers always welcome – with a short summer tour to other areas always being a highlight. No fewer than seven members of the club have served as president of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society since the club was formed.
Members of the club were also instrumental in the 1970’s in selecting the bigger cattle – including importation from Canada – demanded by the modern market to compete with the larger-framed Continental breeds.
The Border Aberdeen-Angus Club, and its members, always forward-thinking and innovative, have played a big part in bringing the Aberdeen-Angus breed back from the brink and restoring it to its rightful position at the top of the British quality beef league. There have been times of change and challenge but the Aberdeen-Angus breed in the Borders is securely placed.
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The Border Aberdeen Angus club was founded in 1966 following concerns expressed by two highly successsful local breeders, Billy Arnott, Haymount, Kelso, and the late Tom Brewis, Eastfield of Lempitlaw, Kelso, that the lucrative post-war market for Aberdeen-Angus cattle to North and South America was on the wane and more needed to be done to promote the breed to commercial suckler herds in the face of strong competition from the Hereford, soon to be followed by the Continental breeds.
On June 28 the club was formally constituted at a meeting in Kelso’s Ednam House Hotel with Mr Brewis as chairman and Jim Stobo, then of Fishwick, Berwick on Tweed, as vice-chairman.
But the driving force behind the success of the club has been breed enthusiast and historian, Rainy Brown, Easter Hendersyde, Kelso, who was secretary of the club from its inception.
Over the years, the club has organised countless promotional events for the Aberdeen-Angus breed – with commercial beef producers always welcome – with a short summer tour to other areas always being a highlight. No fewer than seven members of the club have served as president of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society since the club was formed.
Members of the club were also instrumental in the 1970’s in selecting the bigger cattle – including importation from Canada – demanded by the modern market to compete with the larger-framed Continental breeds.
The Border Aberdeen-Angus Club, and its members, always forward-thinking and innovative, have played a big part in bringing the Aberdeen-Angus breed back from the brink and restoring it to its rightful position at the top of the British quality beef league. There have been times of change and challenge but the Aberdeen-Angus breed in the Borders is securely placed.