Whether you’re a farmer looking for information on how to maximise and drive output on your farm while having the certainly of being able to collect a substantial premium for producing the right type of animals or an ambitious and enthusiastic young student wishing to enter Ireland’s most innovative and competitive Ag Science School Competition, you need to put a visit to the Irish Angus Exhibition Centre top of your list at this year’s National Ploughing Championships.For the last number of years, the Irish Angus Exhibition Centre has been a hive of activity and excitement and this year will be no different with enthusiastic students, teachers, parents, Angus breeders, beef processors and retailer all buzzing with excitement about the opportunities of the future.
Whether you’re a farmer looking for information on how to maximise and drive output on your farm while having the certainly of being able to collect a substantial premium for producing the right type of animals or an ambitious and enthusiastic young student wishing to enter Ireland’s most innovative and competitive Ag Science School Competition, you need to put a visit to the Irish Angus Exhibition Centre top of your list at this year’s National Ploughing Championships.
For the last number of years, the Irish Angus Exhibition Centre has been a hive of activity and excitement and this year will be no different with enthusiastic students, teachers, parents, Angus breeders, beef processors and retailer all buzzing with excitement about the opportunities of the future.
The year 2017 will go down in the history books as the year that the Irish Angus Cattle Society celebrated 50 years in business and to put the icing on the birthday cake, the Angus cattle breed in Ireland was declared, for the first time ever, the number one beef breed on pedigree calf registrations.
The Irish Angus Cattle Society invite you to join in the celebrations on stand 368 block one row 17 to mark this fabulous achievement.
On display you will be able to see prize-winners from various shows around the country, with some of the top Irish Angus bloodlines and the All Ireland Champions from the recent finals held at Strokestown Show.
President John Farrell, general secretary Patsy Keenan, assistant secretary Breda McWeeney, council members and members of the YDP will be on hand to give you up-to-date information on the number one pedigree beef breed in Ireland, Angus.
Tesco Ireland, who have been loyal retailers of Tesco finest certified Irish Angus beef for the past 20 years, will once again offer any farmer with a valid herd number a chance to participate in a unique opportunity to win a voucher valued at €3,000 for the purchase of a bull or heifer at the Irish Angus Elite Show and Sale in Carrick-on-Shannon on 9 December 2017. This is regarded as one of the best sales to source the very best Irish Angus genetics.
The Irish Angus Producer Group supported by its processor partners will showcase and explain the opportunities that exist within the Certified Irish Angus Beef Scheme for farmers who wish to commit to the production of certified Irish Angus beef. This commitment will include guaranteed bonus payments for Irish Angus cattle slaughtered in their processing plants. Charles Smith, general manager of Irish Angus Producer Group, along with senior personnel from ABP Food Group and Kepak Group, will explain the opportunities for farmers by availing of guaranteed bonuses into the future.
Finally, as the Angus Producer Group expands into Northern Ireland and now slaughters cattle in ABP Lurgan and Newry, senior staff from ABP Northern Ireland will be in attendance to explain the benefits the Certified Northern Irish Beef Scheme offers Northern Irish suppliers.
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