With more than 1750 milk records completed by pedigree Brown Swiss cattle in the UK during 2022, yet again the breed's longevity, productivity and profitability was highlighted within the recently announced Brown Swiss Cattle Society's UK Production Awards.

The cow within the breed in 2022 that lifted the highest yield, fat and protein awards was the award-winning four-year-old, Kedar Aurora, from Brent and Anne Crothers, of Toi Toi Genetics, in Shropshire.

She was bought by Toi Toi from the Lochhead family, at Kedar, near Mouswald, and was classified VG88 as a heifer and yielded 9776kg in her heifer lactation.

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Calving back at three years five months in her second, she racked up a colossal 14,747kg with 535kg protein and 655kg fat, which also meant she was one of three cows in the 2021 awards to win all three of their respective age categories.

She set a precedence of being the highest yielding Brown Swiss in the UK for the 2021-2022 recording year, when she gave 16,732kg in 305 days at 657kg fat and 574kg protein.

As well as that, she also was Ex-rated in her third lactation and awarded the breed's Elite cow status.

Having just calved in late March with her fourth calf and fourth heifer the next chapter of this cow's great legacy is about the start again.