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GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW

CHAMPIONSHIP
DOUBLE FOR
BROCKHURST
BOLSHOI
AT GYS
It was a Championship
-double for Brockhurst
Bolshoi from Doug Mash,
Torrington Farm, Grove
Lane, Chesham, Bucks
who secured both the
Limousin Championship
and the Supreme Individual
Interbreed on the first day
of judging on Tuesday
8th July at the 2014 Great
Yorkshire Show.
The win followed hard on
the heels of the 2014 Royal
Highland Show where this

eight-year-old cow had
also taken the Limousin
Championship
Shown with her Brockhurst
Centurion-sired bull calf at
foot, Brockhurst Imacelebrity,
Brockhurst Bolshoi is full
of breeding being by the
55,000gns Grahams Samson
and out of the herd’s highly
acclaimed cow Ronick
McAinsi. Brockhurst Bolshoi
had previously lifted the
Limousin Championship at the
GYS in 2011.

You could see a
bit of everything
at The Great
Yorkshire Show!

PATERSON
ANNOUNCES
£19m FUNDING
FOR RURAL
BUSINESSES
Environment Secretary
Owen Paterson announced
£19m of funding for rural
businesses during his visit
to the Show.
He said: “Small businesses
are the cornerstone of the
rural economy, supporting
local jobs, people and entire
communities.”

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The funding is from the
targeted Farming and Forestry
Improvement Scheme (FFIS),
part of the CAP-funded Rural
Development Programme for
England.
Mr Paterson is pictured with
Lincolshire farmer, Martin
Wilkinsin, with ‘Charlie’, a 16
month old Limousin cross.

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