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SATURDAY JULY 01 2017 YORKSHIRE POST
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AGRICULTURE
Innovation is key
Agriculture is the heart of the Great Yorkshire Show and an award created by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society is rewarding innovation.
Great Yorkshire Show /9 PREVIEW 2017
PRESTIGIOUS: The inaugural winners Trevor Brocklesby and Geoff Brown from Ripon Farm Services. Inset: Stuart Mills and Don Barlow of McVeigh Parker & Co Ltd.
The best in farming innovation will come under scrutiny from the expert judges at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show.
Now in its third year, The Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s White Rose What’s Next Awards have once again a racted a diverse selection of entrants demonstrating the very best in new technology.
Agriculture is at the very heart of the Great Yorkshire Show and the Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s aims in establishing the awards was to highlight the products, implements, devices and services which offer real improvement for Yorkshire and the wider rural community.
The three-day show a racts more than 130,000 visitors through the gates making it the perfect event for
businesses to showcase the latest products and it is encouraging
the development of these new ground-breaking ideas, Yorkshire Agricultural Society Council members John Penty and John Henderson wanted to see when they set up the award.
The winner will be announced on the opening day of the show and judges Alastair Philip, Malcolm Gill and Trevor Johnson are currently
The awards have once again a racted a diverse selection of entrants.
interviewing all the entrants to find out how their products will help farmers and the rural community.
Entries this year include a vibrating post driver which eradicates the need for any manual handling, a chain trencher for improved drainage installation, a hookli trailer which can adapt
to a multitude of different jobs, a parabolic equaliser which improves trailer suspension, a seed counter which can be set without the need for calibration tests and a state-of- the-art commercial vehicle.
The winner will be in good company joining the list of McVeigh Parker & Co Ltd’s labour saving quick clip fencing and the Amazone 2A-TS centrifrugal spreader distributed by Ripon Farm Services.
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