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56 RIVERHOUSE FARM FEB/MAR 2019 • farmers-mart.co.uk CATTLE COUPLE HAPPY WITH SUCKLERS, BUYING STORES AND ENJOYING THE SHOWING WORLD Chris Berry talks with Jeremy Waind and Marilyn Tate at Brawby. STEPPING out at Selby Livestock Auc- tion Mart every week alongside his long- time friend and auctioneer Chris Clubley and keeping in step when showing cattle at Christmas and Easter fatstock shows and summer agricultural shows are much easier to handle than when Jeremy Waind of Riverhouse Farm in Brawby near Malton was being regularly sidestepped in rugby at school in Barnard Castle. In his defence the fly half he was de- tailed to tackle was Rob Andrew and the team also contained Rory Underwood. ‘I started as a wing forward and ended as a winger, but nothing like Rory. I could never lay a hand on Rob, but my win brother Richard and I both went on to play for Malton.’ Jeremy may not have had the stellar ca- reer enjoyed by his two old schoolmates, but he and partner Marilyn Tate have had their share of success in the commercial cattle rings. Today the farm operation at Brawby that saw Jeremy’s arrival at Riverhouse Farm in the mid-1990s is run across around 75 acres all down to grass and sees the couple with a herd of 40-plus suckler cows and store cattle bought-in at around 14 months and sold around 21 months. ‘We’ve built up our acreage over the years,’ says Jeremy. ‘I don’t like any less than 400 cattle on at any one time and Marilyn doesn’t like more than 300, so we have 399. Butchers tend to want the better end of the continentals and that’s what we try to supply. They like them fairly fit with plenty of meat on and some good fat cover. We share a stock Limousin bull with Marilyn’s brother Martyn and have a Belgian Blue that we acquired from Roland Mason.’ ‘Most of the beasts we buy are sin- gle sucklers mainly out of Darlington, Bakewell and Brecon marts. We tend to find the younger they are the more trouble they can sometimes be. We like to ESTABLISHED 1860 Bank Top Mart, Clifton Road, Darlington, Co Durham DL1 5DU Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] AUCTIONEER, LIVESTOCK AGENTS AND VALUERS Every Monday - Weekly Sales of Store Cattle and Sheep Every Thursday - Weekly Sale of Prime Cattle and Sheep Wishing Jeremy Waind of Riverhouse Farm continued success Agricultural, Tax and Compensation Claim Valuations Undertaken Andrew J Armstrong (Operations Director/Senior Auctioneer) 07766 914075 Email: [email protected] Scott Ferrie (Auctioneer) 07557 260653 Email: [email protected] Daniel Lynn (Trainee Auctioneer) 07887 653442 Email: [email protected] Tracey Gilhespy (Field Officer) 07867 974688 Email: [email protected] Stephen Dodsworth (Field Officer) 07778 737431 Email: [email protected] CHARTERED SURVEYORS • AUCTIONEERS • VALUERS LAND & ESTATE AGENTS • FINE ART & FURNITURE AGRICULTURAL SERVICES • • • • • Farm Sales & Purchases • Lettings & Contract Farming Agreements Valuations Farm & Estate Management • Single Farm Payment & Grant Scheme Advice Compensation Claims Planning, Diversification • Live & Deadstock & Development Auction Sales 15 Market Place, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 7LP T: 01653 697820 E: [email protected] Reagarth Farm, Helmsley, York, North Yorkshire, YO62 5XH Tel: [phone] E: [email protected] We are pleased to be associated with Jeremy Waind of Riverhouse Farm 40 Burgate, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 7AU Tel: [phone] E: [email protected] WWW.CUNDALLS.CO.UK