2013 Emerald Expo – Two in a Row for Frawley Family

The Emer­ald Expo 2013 saw a record entry of cows and young stock despite the dif­fi­cult weather con­di­tions this spring. The Holstein, Irish Pure Friesian, Short­horn and Jer­sey breeds were all well represented and com­pet­ing for a record prize fund of €25K. IHFA are very thank­ful to all the spon­sors in par­tic­u­lar the major spon­sor All­tech.

 

The show in its third year was held at the Hub, Cillin Hill, Kilkenny on Sat­ur­day 26th April. It was offi­cially opened by John Bryan, Pres­i­dent of IFA and the qual­ity of the stock was the best ever seen in the view of many of the spec­ta­tors.

The judge offi­ci­at­ing at the show was Paul Trapp from the USA. He has judged shows in the USA, Canada, Aus­tralia, Brazil, Japan and UK. He is also on the World Dairy Expo show com­mit­tee and a 4-H judge (young mem­bers Han­dling)

The Fraw­ley fam­ily from Croagh, Rathkeale, Co Lim­er­ick con­tin­ued with their suc­cess of 2012 and took the Supreme Cham­pi­onship and Reserve, hav­ing pre­vi­ously won this acco­lade at Emer­ald Expo 2012. Two in a row!

 

The Supreme Cham­pion and Exhibitor Bred Cham­pion was” Croagh Sussie Mist 46 Ex 90” and the Reserve went to” Ridge­field Dundee Portea Ex 9”3.

The result was a rever­sal of 2012 when the Portea cow took the Cham­pi­onship and Sussie Mist 46 took the Reserve.

 

Judges Comments

  Hon­ourable men­tion was won by the Jones fam­ily, Co. Wex­ford with “Desmond Dundee Embrace” She also won over­all best udder. The judge in his com­ments on the Cham­pion regarded her as having “the best feet and legs he had ever judged.”

The Junior Cham­pion was won by the Hur­ley fam­ily from Co. Wick­low with “Clon­paddin Wind­brook Fame”. Reserve went to Pat Cof­fey, Co Cork with “Lis­na­cunna Dee Beauty”.

The Inter­me­di­ate Cham­pion was won by Jim & Una Sin­nott, Co Wex­ford with “Bally­boy CarmenVG86”. Reserve went to the Jones fam­ily with “Hal­low Mojo Daisy” with hon­ourable men­tion win by Cyril Dowl­ing, Bal­don­nel, Co. Dublin with “Bal­don­nel Gold­wyn Sub­lime”

There was a very good turnout in the Pure Friesian sec­tion. Mar­tin Crowe took the Cham­pi­onship with “Dunum Sne­acta 86 Ex91” .Reserve went to Phil, Matt and Bill O Keeffe with “Black­isle Laura 68 Ex 91”.They also took Hon­ourable Men­tion with “Churchclara Blackie Cir­cus”

The High­est EBI award was won by the pure Friesian cow” Gort­fadda Molly 87” owned by Fran­cis Fitzgerald, Co. Lim­er­ick.

High Standard for YMA

There was very strong com­pe­ti­tion in the two young stock­man­ship and han­dling classes with 25 com­pet­itors. The over­all Cham­pion han­dler was won by Stacey O’Sullivan ‚Knock­brown, Ban­don, Co.  Cork with the Reserve going to Paul Mur­phy, Ban­teer, Co.  Cork.  Hon­ourable men­tion went to Lau­ren O’ Toole, Bag­enal­stown ‚Co.  Car­low.   The major spon­sor for this event was IHFA, All­tech Ire­land, Dept. of Agri­cul­ture Food and the Marine and FBD Insur­ance. Key spon­sors included Zoetis (Pfizer ani­mal health) ‚Glanbia-Gain Feeds, Nor­brook Laboratories, Volac, Novar­tis, Dairymaster, KW For­age, and ABS Ireland.

 

Asso­ciate spon­sors were  Agri Aware, Macra na Feirme, IFA, ASA, ICMSA, Tea­gasc ‚AIB, Kilkenny Mart, Irish Pure Friesian club, Shorthorn society, Jersey soci­ety, Ani­max,  Dovea Genet­ics, Euro­gene, Semen World, Bova AI, Pro­gres­sive Genetics/Semex , Volac,  Lake­land Dairies and Bovi Genet­ics.

There were two infor­ma­tion Forums on the top­ics “Renew­able Energy” and “Dairy Expan­sion”.  Ger Bergin, Vice Pres­i­dent IFA, Bri­ain Smyth, Biotric­ity were the speakers and Matt Mer­rick chaired the forum on Renew­able Energy. Dr. Padraig French and Tom O’Dwyer –Teagasc and Pat O Meara‚ AIB   Bank spoke at the forum on Dairy expan­sion.

 

Full details on all class winners, their sponsors and a selection of photos are available on the IHFA website (www.IHFA.ie ) on the Emerald Expo page.