Heifer donation boosts prostate charity cause

May 20, 2023 at 9:10 am

Dale Watt, president of Orkney Prostate Awareness, and Al Watson, alongside the heifer that the farmer has gifted to the charity to sell.

Inspired by his own family’s experience, a Firth farmer has stunned those behind a new awareness charity with a very special donation of a different kind.

Al Watson, who farms 520 acres at Rennibister, has thrown his support behind the important men’s health message promoted by Orkney Prostate Awareness (OPA), donating a heifer to the charity’s cause.

The heifer, a brown Simmental out of a Belgian cross, will be sold through the Orkney mart later in the year, raising money for the charity and — more importantly — awareness of prostate issues in Orkney’s farming community.

The charity hopes that the gesture can encourage more men, particularly farmers, not to dismiss or ignore signs of prostate trouble.