A SCORCHER of a day welcomed exhibitors and visitors along to the show's usual spot at the edge of the town, and, with entries high, Andy Wilson, of West Croft, Kilwinning, ruled champion of champions, with a three-year-old Simmental heifer, Cairnview Tilly. 

She was shown with a six-month-old bull calf at foot, and that was with the help of Ewen Macarthur, who had travelled all the way down from Newton of Budgate, Nairn, to attend the show.

Leading the way in the dairy section was the National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, with Kittochside Candy's Elegance, a heifer in milk.

Stuart and William Heads, of Aitkenhead Farm, Fenwick, were triumphant in the sheep lines' inter-breed championship, with their Blackface ewe hogg, which is by a £3800 Mitchellhill, out of a £7500 Dalchilra dam.

Taking the top prize in the Clydesdale section was Matt Burks and Jacqueline Pettigrew, and that was with Auchengree Bethany, a home-bred yearling filly.

For full results, see this week's The Scottish Farmer, out on Saturday, June 2, 2018.