Didier Berland is settled on the lands of the small town of Varenne L'Arconce where runs the river La Reconce. For the little story, if both names are so similar, it's because the former is the translation of the latter in the local dialect. He owns about 87 acres of clay and limestone land and his main activity is cattle fattening, ie he purchases youngstock during the spring, fattens them and resells them in the autumn. His lands are situated in the Brionnais region, an enclave in the Charollais renowned for the richness of the lands, hilly and hedged.

Didier Berland has a barn of 5 boxes whcih includes a scan room. He owns 5 broodmares including 4 AQPS and 1 Thoroughbred. One day where he was in the fields in the middle of Nicolas de Lageneste's broodmare band, this latter showed him a filly and told him: "take the filly, I'll give you the dam". It was in fact First Wool, daughter of Jupe de Laine, bred by Gilles Chaignon. Besides two good products, Onde de Choc and Roi de France, who have earned over €70,000 each, this mare was only producing foals hard or who died at birth and Nicolas didn't wish to keep her... This is how Didier Berland's operation started!

After having slipped three years in a row, First Wool has finally produced Taxi Boy (Epalo), who won the 2007 foals competition at Decize. A nice first for Didier Berland! She has also produced Unika la Reconce (Robin des Champs), winner of the best 2-year-old fillies prize at Moulins.
Over the years, he acquired Rêve Alex, Petite Fille, the dam of Super Maman, Mille Merci and finally the Thoroughbred Shendandoah, twice a winner and sister to a Listed winner, purchased at the Saint Christophe Show while she was to be sent to the butcher!
Even though he stopped breeding harness horses, Didier Berland has retained some habits such as touching the foals from their very first moments and get them used to the contact with humans.