
A Scottish farm has welcomed its first calf of a Japanese breed which produces the most expensive beef in the world. Wagyu cattle are traditionally reared with beer, receive massages and back scratches and are also played music to improve the quality of the meat. The Barony College Farm near Dumfries delivered its first calf on Sunday and named her Inochi, which means life. It is part of a project being run with supermarket chain Asda [owned by Wal-Mart] to produce high quality beef from normal dairy herds...Inochi was born to a Holstein Friesian dairy cow but sired by a Wagyu bull...The south of Scotland calf is the first of five expected at the Barony College...Farm Manager Craig Drummond said..."Once the calves are a little older our students will be welcome to try massaging them or giving them some of the pampering that their Japanese counterparts enjoy"...more...