Last week we told how Crocketford’s John McCulloch had become a skilled stockman by the age of 15, having helped his dad George and mum Maureen win the Shorthorn championship at the Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate in 2015.
The family, which had Galloway and south Ayrshire roots – his grannie hailed from Barholm at Carsluith – were still in Perthshire at that time but after a visit to Australia the following year everything changed and in 2017 John’s parents moved to a farm in Yorkshire.
John took the decision to plough his own furrow and aged 17 headed for a job at Chapleton Farm near the Haugh of Urr, his prospects clarified thanks to a chance meeting at the October bull sale at Stirling the previous October.
