Rain didn’t stop the Northumberland County Show

The rainy day did not deter just over 23,000 visitors to the Northumberland County Show on spring Bank Holiday Monday. 

Agriculture is the heart of the show and Champion of Champions competition judge, Mr. Robert Neill of Upper Nisbet near Jedburgh, said of the final line up, “It is an honour to be asked to judge today. Every animal here could be the winner. The quality is outstanding.”  The winner of the competition supported by JS Hubbucks Ltd was pedigree Limousin in-calf heifer called Mystyle Maitoi, owned by the Richardson family of Gill House, Appleby. Handler, Ben Richardson, was delighted by the result saying, “I can’t tell you what this means to us! It’s amazing! This heifer was home bred and we knew from the beginning she was special."

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