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YORKSHIRE POST SATURDAY JULY 01 2017
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YOUNG FARMERS
Ambassadors fly in from Down Under
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Three award-winning young farmers are je ing in from Australia to visit the Great Yorkshire Show.
The winner and runners-up of the South Australia Rural Ambassador Award, Will Bray, Tom Hunter and Shannon Donoghue will be at
the show as part of the winner’s study tour, meeting staff and volunteers as well as pitching in and helping out.
Run by the Royal
Agricultural and
Horticultural Society
of South Australia and SA Country Shows, the Rural Ambassador Award focuses on the importance of agricultural shows for farming and rural enterprise. Visiting the show is one of the highlights on their 12-day tour and will give the young farmers the opportunity
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to gain first-hand experience of a British agricultural show.
Will said: “Tom, Shannon and I have been lucky enough to win an opportunity to travel to parts of the UK to learn about and experience first- hand the agricultural industry
including farm visits and agricultural shows.
“I am looking forward to
discovering how the agricultural industries are both different and
similar to ours in Australia.”
Their time at England’s premier event will form part of
a presentation the three will make when they return home at the end of July.
It will be the second year, the antipodean Rural Ambassador Award winners have visited the show with last year’s guests describing it as a wonderful experience.
CHAMPION: Robin Skailes, of Cropwell Bishop Creamery, No inghamshire, with his Supreme Champion-winning stilton.
Cheese at its best
With more than 850 entries this year, the scene is set for an exciting three days for the Great Yorkshire’s Cheese and Dairy Show.
FOOD
RARE: A Ford Minister of Munitions tractor used during the First World War.
Tractor display marks Fordson centenary
Creating a cheeseboard fit for a Queen will be one of the talks in the Great Yorkshire Cheese and Dairy Show as a Royal cheese supplier makes its debut.
Jeremy Bowen, of London-based Paxton & Whitfield, purveyors of fine cheese to the Royal household, will take to the stage to li the lid on creating a cheeseboard fit for a monarch.
As well as top cheese tips, he will also be giving dinner party tips on pairing the correct cheese and wine, or a more unusual cheese and beer get together.
Another speaker sure to gather a crowd will be former Syrian refugee Razan Alsous.
Razan and her family fled war- torn Damascus in 2012 se ling in Yorkshire. Struggling to find a job, despite her degree in pharmacy, she founded her own award-winning cheese company making traditional halloumi.
The cheese, which was a staple
in her home country but hard to find in Yorkshire, is now a firm favourite and made from her base in Huddersfield.
More than 850 entries have been received for classes which range from milk, bu er, hard and so cheese and ice cream, a number
JUDGING: Terry Hudson, chief cheese judge at the Great Yorkshire Show.
chief steward, Judy Bell, says is up on last year.
Judy, who founded artisan cheese company, Shepherd’s Purse, says she is delighted at the number of entrants looking forward to an
‘Cheese and dairy judging is a real spectacle and visitors really enjoy it.’
exciting three days. “This really
is fantastic news, and I am delighted that our numbers are creeping
up.
“The Great Yorkshire Cheese and Dairy Show is a wonderful event, which is very popular with everyone, and this is reflected in the high number of entrants,” she said.
A team of 40 judges will be picking the winners and the show’s ultimate prize, the Supreme Champion Dairy Product, which will be presented on Wednesday, July 12.
Visitors are able to watch the judges at work, an element of the show, Judy said, had proved very popular. “Cheese and dairy judging is a real spectacle and since we opened up judging to visitors it has proved incredibly popular.
“O en the judges will talk to the spectators and explain what they are doing, what they are looking for and sometimes even let visitors have a taste themselves,” said Judy.
Visitors will once again have
the chance to try their hand at cheese and ice-cream judging,
while the final day of the show will be the traditional treat day for cheese lovers when the Grand Cheese Auction takes place. This year, money raised will go the Yorkshire Cancer Centre.
Rare agricultural machinery and tractors will be showcased on the President’s Lawn at
the Great Yorkshire Show to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Ford and Fordson Association.
Fordson tractors became Ford in 1964 and then became New Holland in 1996, which is the trading name it’s known as today.
One of the most unusual models on display will be a 1917 Ford Ministry of Munitions tractor, one of the first 6,000 off the production line in
Dearborn, Michigan, USA. It was sent over to aid food production in the UK during the First World War.
Members of the West Yorkshire Vintage Tractor and Engine Club will also be adding their own cherished vehicles
to the display. Chairman Brian Chester said he was delighted to bring the special display to the show.
He added: “This is a unique opportunity for people to
see these tractors and how production has developed over the years.”