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Heifers were keenly bid for at the Society’s show and sale at Harrison and Hetherington’s Carlisle Mart, the champion female - Barlaes Katie 100th from Robert McTurk, Barlaes, Dalry, Castle Douglas made the top price of the day of 3000gns, this Troloss Magnum daughter and out of Barlaes Katie 41st sold to Robbie Galloway, Cardona, Doune, Stirling for his 24 head herd.

Andrew Tullie is the seventh generation of his family to farm at Bowanhill, Teviothead, near Hawick. The family have been tenants of the Buccleuch Estate since 1845 - almost 150 of them at Bowanhill - and for a large part of that time the herd of Galloways has been a mainstay of the business.

Galloway cattle have always been kept at Greenwell. They are now and have always been the perfect beast to graze the commons of Dartmoor and convert that rough diverse grazing into beef. 

Traditional Galloway cattle have played an important lifelong role for hill farmer Stewart McIntosh and he has no intention of changing that.