The All-European Championship Holstein Show 2019 took place April 13 in Libramont, Belgium. Judging the show was Mark Nutsford from the United Kingdom, and his Associate judge was Attilio Tocchi from Italy. Congratulations to all the winners from the All-European Championship Holstein Show 2019!
- Grand & Senior Cow Champion – Du Rahun Chelios Heline (Chelios), 1st Aged Cow, Junker, Staub, Al.Be.Ro, CH
- Intermediate Cow Champion – ME Dal Long P Dandy (Long P), 1ST Senior 3yr Old, Errera Holsteins & Di Davide Errera, IT
- Junior Cow Champion, Comestar Doorman OKatrysha (Doorman), 1st Int 2yr Old, WTS Genetics , Kurt Willmann, CH
- Best Country – Switzerland
Judges
Mark Nutsford, United Kingdom
Mark owns and helps to run Celltech Embryo Transfer, Kingstreet Sires, and Riverdane Holsteins with his wife Susan. He was born 22nd May 1963 and is a trustee of Holstein UK. He is a keen showman and his UK show winnings include the National twice, the Royal Show, All Breeds Calf Show twice and bred three, AgriScot four times, U.K. Dairy expo, UK Livestock event, Cheshire show five times, Western show three times, Northern Expo twice Nantwich three times International shows include European 4yr class Fribourg. Mark has had 54 all Britain Competition nominations, three 97 point cows and has 30 maximum scored cows including 13 VG89 two year olds.
Attilio Tocchi, Italy
Attilio has always lived on his farm (TOC FARM), except in 1994 when he had 3 months experience at Quality Farms in Canada. During his life, he has travelled around the World and especially in North America, visiting farms and Holstein Shows. Attilio has managed the farm for 25 years and bred cows like ‘Toc Farm Allen Amyly’, the twice National Champion and one time World Champion, Toc Farm Pagewire Pamy, European 3-year old Champion, and bulls; Toc Farm Goldsun , Goldfish, Gabino (in Germany), Glauco and more recently genomic bulls like Fitz, Fontaine and Maximilian. Since 2007 he has judged the National Show, interregional, regional, interprovincial and provincial shows. He has judged internationally in Spain and in September 2011 the 12th Feria Regional Argentina and in 2015 June Regional Show dell’ Asturia Gijon, Spain.