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Breeding the latest venture for Bob and Fiona Temple

'Sold!' - Bob and Fiona Temple at the dispersal of their Charolais herd in 2012
'Sold!' - Bob and Fiona Temple at the dispersal of their Charolais herd in 2012Credit: Anne Lawson

Bob and Fiona Temple have followed a rather unusual path into the breeding game, with the husband-and-wife team best known for showing Charolais cattle at shows up and down the country.

The couple rose to the top of that field, and in their last year of showing before selling their Charolais herd, they had a yearling bull named Rumsden Fawkes.

The prize specimen was crowned champion at the English National Charolais Show and the inter-breed junior bull champion at the Royal Highland Show, as well as the champion Charolais and inter-breed junior bull champion at the Royal Welsh Show.

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