The talk was of wet weather and drilling delays as Cotswold farmers gathered to show off the results of their skills at the Moreton Show Fodder Crops and Cereals competition, sponsored by Tayler & Fletcher.   It was a difficult autumn for farmers after bad weather disrupted autumn planting but on an unusually fine day in Broadwell, near Moreton in Marsh, there was plenty of hay, straw, silage and malting barley on show at The Fox Inn for the judges, Philip Smith from the Cheltenham-based grain merchants, Western Arable and local dairy farmer, David Wall.Philip Smith said: ‘F..

Two of Moreton Show’s former long-serving secretaries led the way in planting 30 trees and 60 hedge plants on the showground at Old Farm on the Batsford Estate. Georgina Attwood – known to everyone as Babs – was Moreton Show secretary between 1970 and 1995 and Tim Gardner, who took over the role until 2010, are pictured with members of the Moreton Show team, planting trees on the Farmtastic area of the showground.  The trees, including Silver Birch and Hazel, have been donated by the Woodland Trust as part of a nationwide tree planting scheme.  Next year’s Moreton..

Moreton Show celebrated its 70th anniversary with record entries, rising standards and an exceptional showcase of livestock and horses from the next generation of young farmers and exhibitors. In every section on the 165-acre showground, it was notable that youngsters were getting involved in showing livestock, exhibiting arts and crafts and enjoying what this one-day agricultural show had to offer.  On a day when large crowds flocked to the Batsford Estate on the edge of Moreton-in-Marsh, events in the main arena came to a spectacular conclusion with one of the biggest Gra..

A sixth generation of a Cotswold family will be showing sheep at Saturday’s 70th anniversary Moreton Show.At just two years-old and resplendent in his own white coat and flat cap, young Henry will accompany his grandad, Tom Stayt into the big arena in front of the Members’ Marquee for the Grand Parade. For Tom, it will be a proud moment at the end of a day in which he hopes his white-faced, biscuit colour-dyed Berrichon sheep will have picked up a few rosettes.Tom, 56, manages his prize-winning Statesman flock of British Berrichons with his partner, Donna Wallis in Church Westcote, where his f..