Countdown to the Northern Expo Holstein Show 'Silver Edition' farming.

AS livestock movements are getting under way across the country the Northern Expo Show Committee are getting ready to take their show into its quarter century.

The "Silver Edition" 25th anniversary Holstein show will be held at Carlisle on the evening of Friday, October 26.

The show is open to all female animals registered with Holstein UK and there are classes to suit all ages from baby calves to senior cows.

The Northern Expo Holstein Show is largely seen as one of the main events in the dairy calendar at Carlisle's Borderway Mart in what is now established as a national autumn show fixture and undoubtedly one of the best and most popular one-day shows in the UK. Northern Expo's beginnings came with the decision to hold a club show in 1982 by members of the North West Holstein Breeders Club, then a fledgling club.

The 1982 show immediately enjoyed popularity, attracting a creditable 74 head of cattle from 21 exhibitors that year. While early honours were dominated by the Parboldhall and Greengill prefixes, enthusiasm, quality and numbers continued to grow, resulting in more than one relocation for the event. However in more recent times the dazzling show career of one amazing cow has been emphasised by the Northern Expo Show, namely "Holmland Storm Flo".

Flo has won the show on three occasions, bred by Tony Bell and shown in the expert hands of Francis, Ann and David Wright of Kendal.

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SUCCESS STORY: Cattle on parade at the Northern Expo Holstein show.