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Warwickshire family champions Simmental cattle after 50 years of pedigree breeding

Four generations of the Evans family have been involved with the Wroxall herd of pedigree Simmentals which was established in the 1960s

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Sam and Rob Evans
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Sam and Rob Evans

In the late 1960s, Dan Evans was asked to be a part of the original buying commission sent over to Switzerland by the British Government to source Simmental genetics from their native country and return...

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