The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) has said plans for 2021 Balmoral Show are “progressing well”.
The society is currently seeking a joiner to help with preparations and said it hoped for a “near normal” event later this year.
2021 Balmoral Show
This week (Wednesday to Saturday, May 13-15) would have been the original 2021 show week.
However, it was announced in December that the 2021 Balmoral Show would be postponed from its usual May date because of Covid-19 and instead take place from September 22-25, 2021.
An RUAS spokesperson said: “While we are of course disappointed that we aren’t meeting at the showgrounds this week, we are delighted to report that plans for September’s Show are progressing well.”
Online entries close for the Scottish Championships on May 7. Bread, dairy, and handcrafts producers from across Scotland have been invited to apply for the 2021 Scottish Championships to be held as part of this summer s Royal Highland Showcase. The showcase, the first of its kind in the UK, will bring together the best in food, farming and rural life in glorious technicolour beamed into homes, sheds, fields and tractors around the globe using the latest technology, the best quality product and some ‘well kent’ faces fronting the online event, which has been made possible by a £750,000 grant from the Scottish Government.
Breeding Charolais cattle that will go on to produce a fast-growing store calf is the name of the game for Ian and Dorothy Goldie, and their Solwayfirth herd, at Greenfield, Cummertrees, near Annan. Ian took over the running of the Longbridgemuir Charolais herd in 1982 from his father, David and ventured out on his own in 1990, now running two neighbouring holdings which sit near the Solway coast, covering 280 acres in Dumfries and Galloway. The Solwayfirth herd was established in 2001 after Ian and Dorothy suffered the tragedy of losing all their livestock in the foot-and-mouth outbreak. Replacement females were then sourced mainly from the Moyness, Ugie, Brampton and Basset herds to get back up and running again.