Shows & Events

Every year since 2015 Love Lamb Week has taken place between the 1st and 7th of September. The week sees industry leaders and the farming community come together to celebrate all things lamb. 

Farmers and the rural community will be brought together again at the Staffordshire County Showground on 20th and 21st November for the 2021 English Winter Fair, it has been confirmed.

With exactly one year until the return of the National Sheep Association (NSA)’s flagship event NSA Sheep 2022, plans are beginning to take shape to ensure visitors to the popular sheep farming show can look forward to an informative and enjoyable day out.

Over 1,300 lots of vintage and classic tractors, machinery, motorcycles, cars and collector’s items went under the hammer on 24th July at Cheffins’ sale ground in Sutton, near Ely.

The 2021 Sheep Dog Trials will be the first to be live streamed in high quality thanks to a new partnership with media company Giggabox. Their multi camera approach will allow sheep dog enthusiasts around the world to keep up with the action.

After having to sadly cancel the 2020 championships the Society of Ploughmen have confirmed that they will be going ahead with the event this Autumn. This will mark the national championships 70th year. 

The CropTec Show will open its doors once again to visitors at the East of England Showground in Peterborough on 24-25 November 2021.

Fruit Focus 2021, the premier event for the fruit industry, will open its doors to physical visitors on 21st July 2021 with no restrictions. 

This time last week the Farmers Guide team attended the Cereals event in Lincolnshire. Here’s what we discovered about the evolving farm diversification industry.

Over 100 British farms opened their gates on 27th June for the first LEAF Open Farm Sunday (LOFS) since June 2019 – with one in three farms taking part for the first time.

The Royal Highland Showcase – seven days of livestreamed livestock judging, forestry, equestrian, sheep shearing, industry talks and Scottish produce championships – drew to a close this week, with organisers heralding the innovative hybrid event a resounding success.

The latest intelligence from the ambitious Green Horizons initiative to improve practical farming sustainability will be centre stage in this summer’s integrated on-line and on-farm events programme from the UK’s most extensive agronomy research and demonstration network.