Today’s cow owes much to the efforts of Leicestershire agriculturalist ... records show a steer weighing 214 stone – the modern Sussex, boosted by Limousin and Aberdeen Angus blood, is a handsome, ...

Arthur Nicol went to pull up a carrot to go with his Sunday lunch when it came out as a mammoth root vegetable, which tipped the scales at a whopping 4lb 10.6oz.

Mr Leslie, told the conference breeding for fat was key to the success of his 90-cow Aberdeen-Angus suckler herd. The outwintered herd is run alongside a 900-ewe commercial sheep flock. A ...