A PEDIGREE Limousin heifer fetched the highest-ever price for a winner of the Supreme Cattle Champion event in Royal Welsh Winter Fair history this week.
The Supreme Cattle Champion – one of the most prestigious accolades of the Winter Fair – was awarded to ‘Glangdwen Velvet’, a Pedigree Limousin heifer weighing 598kg, bred in Caersws by CL & FE Jerman and exhibited by Edwards Brothers, of Corwen, Denbighshire.
The impressive animal sold for a whopping £27,000 at Tuesday’s auction, the final day of the event, setting a new record price for the event’s champion.
Glangdwen Velvet is a product of Powys, having been reared by Glangwden Limousin, founded in 1990 by the Jerman family, from Caersws.
In a post on the Glangwden Limousins & Stabilisers Facebook page on Wednesday, the family said: “There are no words to say how proud and delighted we are as a family towards the Edwards Brothers – Gwyn, Cai and Dion for winning the Supreme Overall Champion with Glangwden Velvet; (as well as) the Reserve Overall Champion Steer with Spiced Rump (Glangwden Valium), with these two also being placed first in the pairs class.”
Despite setting a new record for a champion, it is not the highest price ever paid for an animal at the Winter Fair.
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That accolade went to Derg Sassygirl, the reserve champion at the 2022 event, who was bought by an undisclosed phone bidder for £36,000.
Thousands of visitors flocked to the Winter Fair for two days of celebration, competition and festive atmosphere.
An annual highlight of the agricultural calendar in the UK, it was held at the showground in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, on Monday and Tuesday, November 24-25.
It was celebrating its 35th year, having first been staged as a modest one-day event in 1990.
It has since grown to become one of the most popular attractions in British agriculture.
The fair continues to maintain its position as one of the finest primestock shows in the UK, and this year attracted nearly 700 exhibitors from across the UK.
Livestock competitions remained at the heart of the event, with excellent support from exhibitors.
There were record numbers in the pig section, the second-highest number of lamb carcass entries, and sheep classes were at full capacity.
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