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Great Yorkshire Show

Four days of farming each July at Harrogate, where Yorkshire shows the Shorthorn and its other breeds.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at Great Yorkshire Show

The Yorkshire Agricultural Society held its first show in 1838, and since 1951 the Great Yorkshire Show has had a permanent showground at Harrogate. It now runs for four days from the second Tuesday of July. The livestock sections are among the largest in England, with beef and dairy cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and heavy horses, and the cattle lines include breeds with deep roots in the north. The Shorthorn was improved in the valley of the Tees in the late eighteenth century and spread from there across the world. Yorkshire farming also shows its dairy herds, whose milk goes into the county's cheeses.

The breeds

ShorthornThe breed improved in the Tees valley in the 1700s.Beef ShorthornThe beef line of the old Durham breed.Holstein FriesianThe dairy cow of most Yorkshire herds.

Also part of it, and being written: Dairy Shorthorn (The dairy line of the same breed.).

About this page

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