Great Yorkshire Show
Innovation coupled with tradition was the hallmark of the 158th Great Yorkshire Show, which closed its gates after three actionpacked days showcasing the best of British farming and rural life.
SUNNY SKIES, TOP CLASS Director, live robotic milking competitive entries and demonstrations in a new thousands of the country’ s purpose-built dairy unit, and premier livestock competing seminars focusing on the future across a vast array of classes of agriculture post-Brexit. helped attract a total of 135,026 Said Charles:“ It was a visitors to the three day wonderful three days and agricultural extravaganza, one a superb showcase for the of the highest figures of the last farming industry in what was decade and just shy of the alltime record of 135,111 which was of the new government. It’ s
a significant week in terms
set in 2006. Last year’ s figure very clear that both farmers was 132,131. and the public love the Great This year’ s event notched up Yorkshire Show and plans a number of firsts, with Charles are already underway for the Mills making his debut as Show show in 2017.” days.
As Prime Minister Theresa May was busy announcing her new Cabinet on Wednesday, England’ s premier agricultural show welcomed Environment Minister Liz Truss, just 24 hours before she was promoted to the Justice Department.
During a hectic morning touring the Great Yorkshire Show, Ms Truss visited the showground’ s recently opened £ 11.5m exhibition hall, which was turned into a virtual food emporium for the three
Covering an area of three and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools, it was a shop window of British food, and played host to the Great Yorkshire Cheese and Dairy Show, one of the UK’ s most prestigious events with close to 800 entries across a wide range of classes.
In another first, the Great Yorkshire limited edition tweed jacket, created in
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Bob Wild
Farm News
Great Yorkshire Show
FATHER AND SON TEAM, there wasn’ t a great deal a firm specialising largely Bob and Richard Wild of Bob of money to be made from in golf course machinery. Wild Machinery( BWM) have those. Bob’ s other passion After a successful career at been situated for the past was for machinery, partly Long’ s, he started making 15 years in Mytholmroyd in stemming from his five year steps towards his long term A QUANTUM LEAP the Calder Valley. With big service as a Marine Engineer goal, which was to have a
1998 was the first quantum changes in recent times, Ian in the Royal Navy. machinery business of his leap when he took on the Wilkinson went along to hear Before taking the plunge own which he achieved with John Deere franchise. their story. on his own, Bob was involved the business in Halifax. BWM had a very successful
The business was started in a Agricultural Supplies
To start with it was about association with John Deere by Bob in 1998 in an old Business, providing animal mainly horticultural and golf and in the later years was garage in Pellon Lane Halifax, health products, fencing & a course machinery, but living in one of their top performing and initially just concentrated whole range of agricultural the middle of an agricultural single unit dealers and therein on the sales and repair of new sundries, this business heartland, Bob also found laid probably Bob’ s biggest and second hand machinery. progressed into supplying farmers coming to him looking challenge. In 2015 Deere had
But in common with many chainsaws, mowers and later for some good, old-fashioned started their rationalisation other people living in this rural on professional groundcare personal service even for programme focussing on area, he had strong links and equipment, machinery is small jobs – something that and developing multiple site a fondness for the farming where Bob’ s interests were. very often the larger dealers dealers. One Friday evening community. He used to have In time this led on to become
Bob received the call for his own milk round and keep sales director of Richard Long his list of customers began to a dealer meeting on the chickens but in those days Engineering in Derbyshire flourish.
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