UK egg producers named winners of Scottish Egg Quality Competition 2011

The 2011 Scottish Egg Quality Competition, sponsored by the Scottish Agricultural College and feed company BOCM PAULS recently awarded two egg producers with the top honors. Winners of the "quaich" for egg producers were Jim and Anne Smillie of Corrie Mains Farm in Mauchline, Ayrshire.

December 5, 2011

The 2011 Scottish Egg Quality Competition, sponsored by the Scottish Agricultural College and feed company BOCM PAULS recently awarded two egg producers with the top honors.

Winners of the "quaich" for egg producers were Jim and Anne Smillie of Corrie Mains Farm in Mauchline, Ayrshire. The Championship Challenge Shield for producer-retailers was awarded to Billy and Irene Robb of Chalmerston Farm in the same region.

 

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