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Irish National Ploughing Championships 2010Athy – Republic of Ireland (21-23 September 2010)
Quality British Livestock was on display from the Shorthorn, British Blonde and British Blue Societies. The event was organised, on behalf of the exhibitors, by the British Blue Cattle Society. The British Livestock Pavilion comprised of a 15 x 15 metre marquee, furnished internally with animal storage, Kitchen facilities and professionally provided Velcro- friendly walling: The overall exhibit provided a very professional image for British Livestock. The National Ploughing Championships was supported by a gate of approximately 80,000 people, per day, which is just short of 250,000 people attending this three day event. Visitors entering the British Pavilion as early as 7.15 am in the morning and the last leaving between 6.30 & 7.00pm in the evening. Throughout the three days the Pavilion was packed with interested persons. It has been very good to report that every piece of publicity material taken to the event was handed out, with each of the exhibitors receiving a healthy number of personally interested contacts. Following the event, exhibitors have commented that there has been very positive follow up, with Swaledale Sheep orders being finalised and very positive interest being demonstrated in Shorthorn, Ayrshire, Blonde, South Devon and Blue Cattle. With regard to the latter, the British Blue sale at Moira, at the end of October, resulted in 80% of purchases being exported to the Republic of Ireland. The event was not without its “moments!” Persistent rain on the Tuesday, followed by heavy rain on Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night, resulted in the stand flooding to a depth of approximately 8 inches. It was then necessary to evacuate the livestock overnight on the Wednesday: However, the very concerted efforts by the show authorities resulted in free straw and the livestock were back on their stand by 8am, ready to receive the final day’s visitors. In conclusion, once again, this has been a first-class shop window for British livestock, its value being reflected in firm business taking place following the event. The general consensus of exhibitors was that it was one of the most successful export events they had all been involved in and regretted very much, the attitude of UKTI, over recognising the event for a TAP Grant. That said, the majority of exhibitors were very grateful for SOLO Grants, which many had applied for and received. Subject, obviously, to economic circumstances, which includes Grant Aid, there was a strong desire to repeat the exercise in future years. Main sponsor EBLEX with very generous support by British Livestock Genetics Consortium Ltd.
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