The Limousin society should establish a task force to investigate herds showing suspicious activity. herds should be visited for a full herd audit, using up to date BCMS records and current registration data from the society, to show all of the cows present in the herd and their current calving status e.g. In calf, recently calved, long time calved. The procedure would be repeated eight months later. If a herd is falsifying the age of calves, anomalies will show up at the second inspection, as some cows will have calved before they could physically do so if the data on the animal was correct.

I also believe that bulls should not have performance data printed in the catalogue unless the bull has been at least weighed once and scanned by a signet (Lim society) technician.

I cannot think of a better use of society funds than to level the playing field for all breeders and maintain the integrity of a breed that stands to be undermined by the actions of an unscrupulous few.