The cattle show at Dairy Day will this year have a prize fund totalling £20k.
The biggest section will be for the National Holstein Show, which features eight classes, a heifer championship and a senior championship.  
The National Ayrshire Show will have six Ayrshire classes, a heifer title class and a senior championship.  
All cattle classes will run throughout the day, with heifers taking centre stage in the morning, followed by all senior classes in the afternoon.
New for 2017 will be an inter-breed championships, with the heifer championship presented in the main ring at lunchtime, followed by an overall senior winner in late afternoon. Bringing the show to a close will be the inter-breed dairy pairs.
Lynden Bustard, the cattle show manager and chief steward, commented: “With the support of dairy businesses, including Anglia Farmers and Westpoint Farm Vets, who are this year’s cattle show sponsors, the competition has established itself as one of the UK’s most prestigious – with breeders from all across the UK braving the show ring!
“Under one roof, we will see the most pristine animals, with the creme de la crème showmanship skills on parade. We’ve received fantastic support this year making the prize fund an incredible total of £20,000.”

The judges for this year’s Dairy Day are:

Holstein – Brian Miller
Ayrshire – Edmund Els
Brown Swiss – Glyn Lucas
Dairy Shorthorn – Ian Collins
Guernsey – David Mann
Jersey – James Waring  

Ian Collins – the Dairy Shorthorn judge – runs The Churchroyd herd of 130 milking animals of Shorthorns and Holsteins in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Churchroyd’s showing highlights in 2016 include winning supreme champion at both Cheshire and The Great Yorkshire shows.
He previously judged many shows in the UK, including at Balmoral Show, in Belfast, plus the Royal Show in South Africa. In his younger days, he also won the National Young Farmers stock judging competition.

James Waring – the Jersey judge – has previously judged the Jerseys at the Royal Welsh (2013), Balmoral (2013), Livestock Event (2014) and All Britain Calf Show (2010).
He farms in partnership with his parents in East Yorkshire, where they keep the Winton herd of Holsteins and Cherryview herd of Jerseys.

Glyn Lucas – the Brown Swiss judge – manages the dairy sales at Harrison and Hetherington and is the senior pedigree auctioneer.
He was raised at Lukevale Holsteins, a registered herd in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland and was a self-employed, professional dairy cattle fitter for eight years before joining the livestock sales industry.
This work took him across North America and to many foreign countries where he prepared, showed and owned numerous All-Canadians, All-Americans and grand champions.
His judging career has included assignments to numerous shows in the UK, Ireland and Belgium and he has been on the UK national judging panel for the past seven years and was a member of the Canadian national judging conference in 2008.   

David Mann – the Guernsey judge – has lived on the family farm in Cornwall since he was born and now manages the business in partnership with his parents.
It’s a coastal plateau of land rising from 100ft to 730ft above sea level, includes rough moorland and grazing fields for the 170 pedigree Guernsey cows plus 130 followers.
The herd is at grass for most of the year due to the mild climate, grazing grass during the summer and kale through the winter.
They are cubicle housed for only three or four months of the year.
The herd average is 6300 litres at 4.98% BF and 3.6% P which includes 38 Ex and 56 VG cows.