| The competition is open to suckler farmers whether finishing cattle or selling weanlings or stores. |
| Maintaining milk supply in suckler herds is a problem where the influence of the Friesian is declining. |
| On average suckler cows spent 228 days at grass, weanlings 239 days and yearling cattle 201 days. |
| Their enterprise consists of 500 breeding ewes and 40 suckler cows in association with 50 acres of sugar beet, the rest is in grain. |
| In addition to a range of arable crops, there are 25 hectares of permanent grass supporting a suckler herd and sheep flock. |
| Some winter feeding regimes such as the overwintering of dry suckler cows require little more than maintenance diets. |
