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World Shorthorn Conference
BREEDING FOR THE FUTURE: THE NEXT 200 YEARS
WORLD SHORTHORN CONFERENCE
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The 200th anniversary of Coates’s Herd Book will see the UK hosting the World Shorthorn Conference in July 2022.
The 14-day itinerary with an optional three-day Scottish tour, is offering an extensive farm study tour of both Beef Shorthorn and Dairy Shorthorn herds and a visit to the Great Yorkshire Show.
The schedule will also feature Breeding for the Future, a one day congress focusing on the next 200 years and how they can evolve based on data collection. This event will be inclusive to all within the UK livestock industry, and topics will include progression and use of data capture, genomics, environmental developments and the next generation.
We look forward to welcoming delegates from around the globe in what is scheduled to be a highly informative, memorable and future forwardthinking event.
Proposed Itinerary
Days 1 - 14
Thurs 7 Jul: Overnight Windsor Arrival London, meet, greet and transfer to Windsor; welcome drinks reception and buffet
Fri 8 Jul: Overnight Cardiff Visits to: Stanford Park beef herd, lunch and classification workshop Charles Horton’s Hannington beef herd, evening BBQ
Sat 9 Jul: Overnight Chester Visit to: Messrs Thomas’s Drisgol dairy herd, Pembrokeshire, lunch
Sun 10 Jul: Overnight Chester Farm visit to be confirmed Lunch, free time to explore Chester historic city
Mon 11 Jul: Overnight Harrogate Visits to: Cogent Breeding Ltd, Chester Chatsworth House, gardens and estate tour
Tues 12 Jul: Overnight Harrogate Full day visit to the Great Yorkshire Show; beef judging day and Shorthorn celebration parade
Wed 13 Jul: Overnight Harrogate OPTION: Great Yorkshire Show; interbreed judging OR Harrogate or York, free time to explore Celebration evening dinner, Showground. Fri 15 Jul: Overnight Durham Full day Conference, Lumley Castle Hotel OPTION: visit Durham City Medieval banquet dinner, Lumley Castle Hotel
Sat 16 Jul: Overnight Durham Visits to: Beamish Heritage Museum World Council meeting / country reports Page Farms Partnership, beef herd, evening refreshments
Sun 17 Jul: Overnight Gretna Visits to: Alnwick Castle and Gardens James Playfair Hannay’s Tofts beef herd Youth Show Presentation, lunch
Mon 18 Jul: Overnight Gretna Visits to: James Robinson’s Strickley dairy farm, lunch included Barwood beef herd (Morrisons, Paul Coates), evening BBQ
Tues19 Jul: Overnight Gretna Visits to: John Thomson’s Shawhill beef herd, lunch Hetland Hall Hotel Messrs Biggar’s Chapelton beef herd Final tour dinner, Gretna
Wed, 20 Jul: Depart to Glasgow Airport
Scottish Post Tour Option
Days 14 - 17
Wed 20 Jul: Overnight Perth Visit to: Carey Coombs Dunsyre beef herd Fri 22 Jul: Overnight Inverness Visit to: Fearn Farm beef herd
Thurs 21 Jul: Overnight Perth Visits to: Major Gibb’s Glenisla beef herd Glenrinnes beef herd Sat 23 Jul: Depart to Inverness Airport
PLEASE NOTE: Arrangements are subject to change
