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Canterbury A&P Show

Christchurch's November farm show, the largest A&P show in New Zealand, ending on the city's Show Day holiday.

A view of the crowd attending the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Metropolitan Show, held at the Addington Showgrounds.
Photo: not stated, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cattle at Canterbury A&P Show

The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association has held its show since the 1860s, and it is the biggest of New Zealand's many A&P shows. It runs for three days in November's Cup and Show Week, ending on the Friday, Show Day, a public holiday in Christchurch. The livestock classes reflect the Canterbury plains: beef breeds from the hill and high country, the dairy herds that have spread across the plains, and sheep in great number. Woodchopping, shearing, show jumping and food halls fill the rest of the grounds, and many rural families make it their trip to town for the year.

The breeds

HerefordA long-established beef breed of Canterbury.Holstein FriesianThe dairy cow of the irrigated plains.JerseyA dairy breed of many Canterbury herds.

Also part of it, and being written: Aberdeen Angus (The black beef breed of the high country.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Canterbury A&P Show" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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