26 Oct 2008 - Worth Valley Victory at Countryside Live by Rachel Moore

Worth Valley Victory at Countryside Live

On Sunday 26^th October, fourteen members from Worth Valley Young Farmers Club traveled to ‘Countryside Live’ where they beat off competition from 48 other YFC clubs to win overall Club stock-judging competition. 

Countryside Live is the autumn version of the Great Yorkshire Show and is held in the famous showground in Harrogate .  A large part of the event involves Young Farmers competitions with the premier event being the live and carcass judging.  As part of this, members placed pens of four live lambs, live beef cattle, lamb carcasses and pig carcasses in an order of their preference.  They then give a 2 minute speech reasoning their choices to the master judge.

Training seemed to have paid off for the Worth Valley Club based in Haworth as Alex Binns came 3^rd in the Junior pig carcass class and Phil Blackwell achieved 3^rd in the senior beef class.  Three sisters from the club were also successful with Rachael Moore placed 3^rd in the senior lamb carcass class, Jennifer Moore  3^rd in the senior pig carcass class, but both were outshone by younger sister, Eleanor Moore winning the class with a fantastic first prize in the senior pig carcass class and receiving a tankard for her efforts.

Due to a tremendous effort from all that competed, for the first time in the club’s history, Worth Valley YFC won the trophy for overall points.  With over 80 members competing from across Yorkshire this is a great achievement and a brilliant start to the competing year.

Rachel Moore, the Club’s Programme co-coordinator explained that the whole club was delighted with the result.  “Many of our members have not done much livestock judging before and a lot of them are not from farming families so to beat the more rural clubs at their own game was a fantastic achievement.”

Anyone interested in joining Worth Valley YFC should visit our website: www.worthvalley.org for further details or contact Tom Ogden, Club Chairman on 07966625363.