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Next: about 28 Aug to 5 Sept 2027

Expointer

Nine days of livestock judging and sales at Esteio near Porto Alegre, the leading farm show of southern Brazil.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at Expointer

Expointer is held each year at the Assis Brasil showground at Esteio, close to Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, at the end of August and start of September. It is one of the largest open-air livestock fairs in Latin America, with judging of beef and dairy cattle, sheep and the Crioulo horse of the gaúchos, auctions of breeding stock, and a large machinery and family farming hall. Rio Grande do Sul has a temperate climate unlike most of Brazil, and its cattle are mostly British and European breeds and their crosses with zebu. The 2027 edition is the fiftieth.

The breeds

HerefordThe breed that shaped the ranches of the southern pampas.Holstein FriesianThe dairy cow of the state's milk sheds.

Also part of it, and being written: Braford (The Hereford and Brahman cross bred for the south.), Aberdeen Angus (A leading beef breed of Rio Grande do Sul.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Expointer" 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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