Atwood Farm will be transferring the registrations of our herd to the Canadian Galloway Society in the second half of 2025.

Why are we making this future change?

The Canadian Galloway Society is aligned with Atwood Farm’s strong belief in protecting the purity of the Belted Galloway breed. They have stricter registration requirements for the cattle in their herd book. This is aligned with Atwood’s Farms focus on strengthening our genetics and promoting the breed.

Atwood Farm believes in maintaining strong personal and business relationships. Our relationship with the Canadian Livestock Records Corp (CLRC) is much stronger than that of the leaders in the US Belted Galloway Society.

We are not aligned with the US Belted Galloway Society’s leadership, promotion of Percentage (Belted Galloway cross) cattle in shows and in the Focus quarterly magazine and the transition to Digital Beef.

In the United States, There is too much focus on the 2% of the farms who show cattle and not enough focus on the 98% of the farms whose goal is raising quality cattle and protecting the purity of the Belted Galloway breed.

What is Atwood Farm doing to protect the purity of the breed?

-focusing on continually improving the genetics of our already strong herd.

-purchased embryos which have strong genetics.

-purchased semen from the UK and New Zealand

***Atwood farm does NOT have any other breed of cattle on our property. We are 100% invested in our Registered Belted Galloways.

Atwood Farm encourages ALL farms who are interested in protecting the purity of the breed to research and also consider the move to the Canadian Galloway Society and return to CLRC.

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Kerry Atwood

Atwood Farm

617-223-1164

kerryjatwood@yahoo.com or atwoodfarmbelties@gmail.com