C O N TA C T S
SHOWS AND EVENTS
Milking time: this cow is keen to get to work! Picture: Kristina Waterschoot
May 6: May 7: May 13-15: May 27-30: June 4-6: June 10-11 June 18-21: July 8-9: July 14-16: July 20-23: September 16: October 7: October 20: November 18:
NMR/RABDF Gold Cup Farm Walk, Michael Eavis, Glastonbury, Somerset Grassland UK, Shepton Mallet, Somerset Balmoral Show, Balmoral Park, Lisburn Royal Bath & West Show, Shepton Mallet, Somerset Royal Cornwall Show, Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge, Cornwall TotalDairy Seminar, Tortworth Court Four Pillars Hotel, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire Royal Highland Show, Ingliston, Scotland Livestock Event, NEC, Birmingham Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate, North Yorkshire Royal Welsh Show, Builth Wells, Powys UK Dairy Day, Telford International Centre, Shropshire The Dairy Show, Shepton Mallet, Somerset Welsh Dairy Show, Nantyci Showground, Carmarthen Agriscot, Edinburgh, Scotland
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