ROMANIAN VISIT TO MILLINGTON GRANGE ESTATE, MILLINGTON, YORK

Mr John Weatherill, of Millington Grange Estate, Millington, York, was delighted to welcome First Secrectary Andy Garth (Trade Development) and Trade Development Officer Violeta Patru of the British Embassy, Bucharest to his farm in Yorkshire.  The group were joined by Mr Petricia Azoitei from SC Agroind SA Focsani, which is a large Romanian farm with 600 dairy cattle, 2500 pigs and a chicken farm.  Mr Azoitei is interested in buying Limousin cattle and semen from John Weatherill at Millington Grange.  An order for 40 Limousin heifers has already been placed by Pal Karoly-Laszlo, a colleague of Petricia, who is representing a number of large farms in Romania.

John Weatherill visited many large Romanian farms, one of which was an enormous 58 thousand hectares, during a trip organized by the British Embassy in Bucharest to encourage trade between our two countries, with John Weatherill representing the Limousin breeders and Mr John Morris representing Charolais cattle.

John Weatherill has sold 12 Limousin heifers already to Poland, and sold semen to Germany and France.

Millington Grange Estate are carrying out advanced technical work, producing embryos from their best cows, and the Romanians are keen to learn this technology.