From cows and freshly tanned sheep to giant wheels and blimps, thousands of people gathered to celebrate the 150th Driffield Show.<\/p>\n
The one-day event is run by the Driffield Agricultural Society on the Driffield Showground just outside the East Yorkshire town.<\/p>\n
It has been running on and off since 1854, with breaks during World War One, World War Two and the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Farmer Stuart Wood, from Leppington, near Malton, who was at the show with his three-year-old cow, said: “It’s a really nice local show. Driffield has maintained its agricultural routes and it’s really good.”<\/p>\n
Wood’s cow comes from good stock. Its grandmother, KHW Regiment Apple-Red-ET, was sold for one million dollars (\u00a3747,000) 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
Wood said his current cow produces almost 12 gallons (45 litres) of milk a day. <\/p>\n
“People think cows are just an animal but they aren’t, they are fantastic things that are feeding us all,” he added.<\/p>\n
The event featured a 98ft-high (30m) big wheel, a blimp, hundreds of trade stalls and a range of entertainment in the main arena, including championship showjumping.<\/p>\n
Show chairman Richard Dee, whose family have been associated with the event spanning three generations, said it was “fantastic” and he was “very proud” to be involved.<\/p>\n
Dee said people had travelled from as far as Scotland and Cumbria to show off their livestock. <\/p>\n
This year’s show was one of the few times where the event coincided with the school summer holidays. The previous time brought in 32,000 attendees.<\/p>\n
Organisers said they were expecting 25,000 people at this year’s event.<\/p>\n
Dee said the show had attracted fewer people since the pandemic, but believed “we have won them back now”.<\/p>\n
Here is a look at some of the highlights from the 150th show…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From cows and freshly tanned sheep to giant wheels and blimps, thousands of people gathered to celebrate the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}