THE WORLD famous Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's event, the Balmoral Show, will not take place in 10 years' time unless members vote to approve to move the show from its current city centre location to a brownfield site which promises to be the 'Centre of Excellence' for agriculture in the province in years to come.
IT MIGHT have been one of the coldest days in the 155th year history of Stonehouse Show, but the Lanarkshire town's annual event put on a brave face in such adversity and there was a grand show of stock in the judging rings – though numbers had been hit by the lateness of the season.
MORE THAN 5000 livestock exhibits are in the book for this year's Royal Highland Show, with the organisers promising a "magnificent display" of beef and dairy cattle, sheep, goats, horses and poultry from all over the UK and Ireland.
Thousands of people braved the rain and the cold at Ayr Show to see the impressive inter-breed beef champion, Podehole Beefeater, a five-year-old Beef Shorthorn bull from Jack and Grace Ramsay, Millerston, Mauchline, go one better than his reserve overall champion of champions win last year, to take the supreme overall.
