Langholm Show will bring down the curtain on Dumfries and Galloway‘s agricultural festivals on Saturday.
The Eskdale Agricultural Society’s 172nd show will be held on the Castleholm from 8.30am on September 28 with more than 70 trophies expected to be handed out with classes for sheep, cattle, horses, dogs, flowers, walking sticks, floral art, photography, crafts, homebaking and handicrafts.
One of the day’s highlights will be vintage tractors, bikes, motorcycles, and traction engines which will parade from the Co-op in Langholm town centre to the showfield at 10.30am.
The show will also have young handlers for sheep and cattle judged at 11am, stockjudging competitions at 11.30am, other livestock judged from 9.30am.
There will also be young farmers’ competitions, walking sticks, and for a crop of hay during the day, along with horses and ponies competitions.
The judging of ponies, in hand horses/inhand coloured starts at 9am.
It is all in the quest to find class winners, then breed champions, overall champions and the ultimate Champion of Champions.
The parade of champions will take place at 2pm – the highlight of the afternoon with many farmers from the region hoping to pick up silverware, presented soon afterwards.
The popular dog show for which judging starts at 10.30am and includes a section just for Collies (judged earlier at 10am) with categories for rough haired and smooth haired, and a Challenge Cup for the Best Collie.
There is a popular industrial vintage section and rally, and – as Langholm is Scotland’s Chilli Town – there is also a coveted competition section devoted to chillies with competitors hoping for the honour of having Heaviest Chilli Fruit, Longest Chilli, Weirdest Chilli and Best Chilli Display.
The judging of industrial and baking exhibits starts at 10am.
The children’s open pet show takes place in the Industrial Marquee at 11.30am for which entries are free and taken on the field on the day.
There will also be Cumberland Wrestling at noon (entries on field), and children’s sports at 3pm, plus terrier racing at 3.30pm, followed by The South of Scotland Sheaf Tossing Championships and tug-of-war at 4pm.
The show will also feature Alpacas, a dog agility demonstration, logging horses and the Teviotdale Steel
Bonnets.
The Eskdale Agricultural Society are aiming to provide a good family day out and have kept ticket prices low.
It is free to accompanied under 10s, and just £5 for under 16s and pensioners.
Adult tickets are £10 and there is no charge for car parking.