The announcement of Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) going into receivership was hardly the best start to the Royal Cornwall Show.  We are meeting the Receivers on Monday along with the Chairman of the DFB Board so watch out for a briefing on Tuesday. 

Royal Cornwall is still a proper show and we saw many members on the first day.  Today we are expecting many more as the weather was forecast to break and many were busy with silage yesterday.  As usual there is a huge turnout of stock (even our vice chairman for the region, James Willcocks, is showing this year) and lots of machinery – very different from cereals next week or the arable east that I am used to.  Apart from the DFB issue we are taking about TB, succession and rents as usual with most people having reviews or notices served.

Chatting to Wessex TFA Chairman Jeremy Walker and his wife Helen on the stand at the Cornwall Show.

This is the county of Mason v Boscawen and I have now met two tenants from the estate where this materialised.  I have enjoyed meeting everyone at the Cornwall show and look forward to meeting many more at Cereals next week.