Livestock

With up to 300 cattle, 800 sheep and 100 goats the Monmouthshire Show boasts an impressive display of livestock from across the regions. Many animals have already proved themselves to be amongst the top livestock in the country.

The Show is open to all and caters for most breeds of cattle, with the Commercial Beef classes being especially popular and the Any Other Breed classes attracting some of the rarer animals not often seen by the general public. The livestock area is well worth a visit for those not familiar with a close up view of some of our many and varied breeds of cattle, sheep and goats. The Monmouthshire Show has been chosen by The Welsh Longhorn Breeders Club to be their official Autumn Show.

In 2010 the Monmouthshire show is host to the West Midland Holstein Cattle calf show. This is the first time that the event will have been held at the Show and should bring plenty of entries in the dairy cow section. Enquiries for schedules to show Hereford cattle have increased and these would have made up the majority of cattle entries during the time of Charles Rolls.

Regrettably it is the livestock section of the show that suffers the most with the seemingly constant threats of Foot and Mouth, TB, and Blue Tongue to name but a few hardships that appear to cast a black cloud over farming. Over the decades several shows have had to go ahead without this section and even been cancelled altogether due to countrywide animal movement restrictions. Nevertheless any measures dictated by DEFRA are managed without fuss to enable centuries of tradition to continue.