But it will need to be a huge stocking as the hard-backed, coffee-table style book, ‘The History of Aberdeen-Angus in the US, UK and Worldwide’, runs to more than 500 pages and is crammed with stories ...

A 590kg Aberdeen Angus cross bullock from the Gray family ... Leading the ewe trade at £250 was a Texel from Messrs Howey, Broomiebank, whilst the same breed topped the rams at £235 from Messrs ...