Crop competition trophy results:
Congratulations to the 2023 winners of Stalham Farmers’ Club’s crop
competitions.
The inter-club barley championship was won by Milligen McLeod Contracting,
of East Ruston, with a sample of Maris Otter.
It was judged the pick of the crop by Rebecca Gee, of the Crisp Malting
Group against a sample of Laureate, entered by Melton Harrold, of Holt &
District Farmers’ Club.
The grain competition entries were judged by Chris Borrrett, of Adams &
Howling.
Barley - 1 Milligen Mcleod (Maris Otter); 2 CN Beck & Son (Diablo); 3
John Key (Maris Otter).
Wheat - 1 Milligen Mcleod (Redrum); 2 HBS Farms (Dawsum); 3 CN Beck &
Son (Insitor).
Sugar beet, judged by Sam Summers of British Sugar.
Best two-acre - 1 Walcott Farms; 2 Milligen McLeod (Waxham); 3 CN Beck &
Son.
Whiole crop - 1 Walcott Farms; 2 HBS Farms; 3 Milligen McLeod.
Cantley Cup for best campaign performance (to be announced later).
Potato Cup, judged by Robin Baines.
1 LF Papworth (Galante); 2 Walcott Farms (Innovator); 3 LF Papworth
(Alexandra) and James Harrison (Ivory Russet).
Cantley Cup (to be announced later).
Congratulations
to our prize winners at the latest annual dinner, which was attended by more
than 120 members and guests. The Dean of Norwich, the Very Rev Jane Hedges
presented the trophies and prize cards at The Boathouse, Ormesby, on Wednesday,
March 20. And British Sugar's Sarah Bebb, who judged the Cantley Cup for best
overall performance by a member in the last beet campaign, now in its 90th
year, also helped to present the prize cards for this prestigious trophy.
Congratulations to the following:
The Potato Results
1.
L
F Papworth Ltd (Daisy)
2.
Walcott
Farms (Innovator)
3.
HBS
Farms (Fontane)
The Sugar Beet Results
Whole Crop:
1.
R
Cook & Sons
2.
Hirst
Farms
3.
G
A Tallowin & Co
Best Two-acres:
1.
C
N Beck & Sons
2.
2.
HBS Farms and C Callow/Edward de Feyter
3.
3.
G A Tallowin & Co and Walcott Farms
Cantley Cup:
1.
Mrs
Mary Hannant
2.
C
N Beck & Sons
3.
HBS
Farms
Barley (21 Samples)
1.
Mautby
Farms (Flagon)
2.
HBS
Farms (Concerto)
3.
R
Cooke & Sons (Concerto)
Wheat (11 Samples)
1.
Milligen
McLeod (Skyfall)
2.
Mautby
Farms (Grafton)
3.
Milligen
McLeod (Siskin)
Double success for first time trophy winners.
Two
first time winners of the wheat and barley trophies were presented with
certificates by Norfolk’s police and crime commissioner Lorne Green.
For the first time since the barley trophy was presented in 1937, it was
won by John Key, of Ormesby, and his son, Philip, with a sample of
Maris Otter. Mr Key was staggered that his sample had put the family
farm, A J Key & Son on the superb trophy. Another east Norfolk
farmer, George Gay, of Mautby Farms, won the wheat cup with a sample of
Grafton. The judge of the annual competition, Chris Borrett, of Adams
& Howling, was thanked for his efforts. In the inter-club barley
championship, the victor was William Mack, of Hempstead Hall, near Holt,
with his Maris Otter sample.
Potato Results:
1. L F Papworth Ltd (Rooster)
2. R. Baines (Ivory Russet)
3. Walcott Farms (Fontane)
Sugar Beet Results:
Cantley Cup: TBA after a prolonged campaign!
Whole Crop
1. C N Beck and Sons
2. Nigel Cooke
3. Andrew Alston
Best Two Acres
1. John Tallowin
2. C N Beck and Sons
3. Andrew Alston
Grain results:
Wheat
1. Mautby Farms, Grafton
2. Milligen McLeod (Skyfall)
3.HBS Farms (Costello)
Barley
1. A J Key & Son (Maris Otter)
2. Milligen McLeod
3. R Cooke & Sons (Concerto).
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Congratulations.
Prize cards and trophies were presented at the 175th annual dinner
by the guest speaker, Sir Nicholas Bacon to the winners of the club’s
competitions.
A
total of 118 members and guests enjoyed a three-course meal at the Norfolk Mead
Hotel, Coltishall. After a stimulating address, Sir Nicholas, who is chairman
of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, presented trophies to members.
The
Cantley Cup, which recognises the best overall sugar beet performance by a
member, went to the club’s vice-chairman Henry Alston, of Billockby Hall. For
the first time in the 89-year history of the trophy, all members were eligible
for the prestigious trophy. The runner-up was Jonathan Gill, of E Jones &
partners and third, CN Beck & Sons; fourth, Milligen McLeod and fifth
Whitwell Hall Farms (Andrew Morton).
RESULTS 2016-17
Potato Cup, judge Denis Walsh -
1 Nova Scotia
Farms;
2 HBS Farms;
3 Robin Baines & Co.
Cereals, judge Chris Borrett of Adams & Howling -
Wheat -
1 Milligen McLeod (Invicta);
2 LF Papworth (Leeds);
3 HBS Farms
(Costello).
Barley -
1 Walcott Farms (Maris Otter);
2 Milligen
McLeod (Maris Otter);
3 Nova Scotia Farms (Maris Otter).
Sugar Beet -
Whole Crop, 2016, judge Ken Matthews -
1 GA Tallowin
& Co;
2 CN Beck & Sons;
3 Andrew Alston.
Best two-acre, 2016 -
1 Milligen McLeod;
2 Andrew
Alston;
3 HBS Farms.
Ten-pin bowls – presented to Charlie Lockhart.
The club's chairman Jonathan Deane thanked the judges
and especially British Sugar's area manager Sarah Bebb for her help with the
beet competitions.
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Success
for Stalham in Norfolk’s top farming business competition.
Broadland
farmer James Chapman was reserve champion in the 36th annual Norfolk
County farm business competition.
And
a former chairman Richard Hirst, of Carr Farm, Ormesby, won the diversification
award and the Stuart Chapman Memorial Shield.
There
was success too for the current chairman, Luke Paterson, as Bindwell Ltd, of
Dilham Hall, was runner-up in class two to the winner, Ali Cargill, of Grove
Farm, Gimingham.
The
supreme champion, Heygate Farms, of Snailspit Farm, Swaffham, is the latest
supreme champion. Farm manager William Gribbon will be presented with the
Leonard Papworth Memorial Award by Tony Bambridge, president of the Aylsham
Agricultural Show Association.
The
long-established farming business won the title for the first time in 1991 when
run by Mervyn Gribbon, and then again in 2006. Heygate Farms is now a
three-time champion.
The
reserve supreme championship was won by Broadland farmer James Chapman, of Hill
Farm, Rollesby. And Chapman Farms, now qualifies for the 2016 supreme
championship, having won the overall title as Norfolk’s best farm in 2002 and
2005.
The
award for the best livestock enterprise, the Jubilee Cup, was won by Stephen
Temple, of Copys Green Farm, Wighton, on the Earl of Leicester’s Holkham
estate.
There
was keen competition in class one between relative neighbours in central
Norfolk, which was judged by two Suffolk farmers. Another former champion,
Robert Salmon, of Hyde Hall, Fransham, near Dereham, won class one ahead of
estate manager Nigel Padwick, of the South Pickenham estate.
The
2014 champions, LF Papworth, of Lodge Farm, Felmingham, have won the supreme
title on a total of eight occasions since it was first awarded in 1981. In that
year, LF Papworth stood reserve to KE Gill Farms.
Another
leading contender, Sir John White’s Salle Farms Co has won a total of six
supreme championships. His estate manager, Poul Hovesen took the title for the
first time in 1992 and retained the trophy the following year and in fact,
became the sixth champion in 2013.
Trophies and awards will be
presented on Monday, July 6. William Gribbon, of Heygate Farms, Swaffham, will
host the annual farm walk at Snailspit Farm PE37 8AE at 5.45pm.
To assist with catering and
arrangements, members and guests of Aylsham Agricultural Show Association are
asked to inform the secretary, Chris Self, on 01263 733881.