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Agri Shows - are we seeing the end??
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<blockquote data-quote="Exfarmer" data-source="post: 7947917" data-attributes="member: 1951"><p>Their demise is a terrible shame as they area huge advert for farming apart from being a a place for farmers to see super new shiny or hairy things.</p><p>Jo public loves a day out in the sun shine which is not super expensive for the family. </p><p>However somewhere way back, we lost our way, suddenly all shows had to become settled on one site with hard paving, and often semi permanent facilities.</p><p>Suddenly parking became a tenner, entry became £25 and certain greedy corporates had swallowed the business and encouraged the cheap tatt tents across the ground until it all became a glorified Sunday market with a few cattle sheep etc locked up out of site behind the horse arena , for safety sake. Then the machinery distributors were treated as the golden goose and charged as if it was Stoneleigh, Paris or agritechnica , trying to purveytheir goods to 17 farmers, 2 dogs and a small army of young boys <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p>There are a few small shows run by bands of willing volunteers, and these do tremendous good work promoting farming, it is a pity this old model could not be upgraded to larger displays, but forst we would ned willing farmers to allow such a thing on a large area of grass near large towns, with little hope of vast returns. It could be done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Exfarmer, post: 7947917, member: 1951"] Their demise is a terrible shame as they area huge advert for farming apart from being a a place for farmers to see super new shiny or hairy things. Jo public loves a day out in the sun shine which is not super expensive for the family. However somewhere way back, we lost our way, suddenly all shows had to become settled on one site with hard paving, and often semi permanent facilities. Suddenly parking became a tenner, entry became £25 and certain greedy corporates had swallowed the business and encouraged the cheap tatt tents across the ground until it all became a glorified Sunday market with a few cattle sheep etc locked up out of site behind the horse arena , for safety sake. Then the machinery distributors were treated as the golden goose and charged as if it was Stoneleigh, Paris or agritechnica , trying to purveytheir goods to 17 farmers, 2 dogs and a small army of young boys 😂 There are a few small shows run by bands of willing volunteers, and these do tremendous good work promoting farming, it is a pity this old model could not be upgraded to larger displays, but forst we would ned willing farmers to allow such a thing on a large area of grass near large towns, with little hope of vast returns. It could be done. [/QUOTE]
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