Dalmally Show Centenary Year
This was always going to be a big year for Dalmally Show as it is the centenary and the committee are hoping to keep things that way. They are going forward with plans for the show, and are ‘optimistic’ with all their planning for the big event while factoring in the need to adhere to whatever Covid restrictions might be in place on the day. The advantage it has is that Dalmally is one of the last shows of the year so it is held much later than others in Argyll. Lorn Show has already told The Oban Times that it will not run this year. Fiona Dickie, Secretary of Lorn Agricultural Society, told The Oban Times: ‘After much deliberation the committee have taken the decision to cancel the 2021 show. ‘The main concern was the social distance aspect and how it would have been monitored.’
Royal Highland ‘Showcase’
There is just over a month to go to Scotland’s premier farming event, the Royal Highland Show. It has been cancelled in its traditional from, but the Royal Highland Show will be the Royal Highland Showcase this year; it will be live streaming a ‘behind closed door event’. Bill Gray, the chairman of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland announced in March: ‘Despite our best efforts, and I did promise that we would leave no stone unturned, as a result of Scottish Government guidelines, and the current Covid-19 pandemic situation, the board of directors were left with no option but to cancel the Royal Highland show 2021. ‘It is really difficult to convey how disappointing this is, even more so I think than last year for the simple reason that we’re all desperate to get together and have a show under out normal circumstances. ‘We have been working hard behind the scenes to think of some options we might be able to deliver and its really exciting that we’re planning a behind closed door event which will give us the opportunity to live stream live information out to the wider public and to our members of the normal things you would see at the show, whether it be livestock, farriery or sheep shearing or equestrian, We hope that you will all get behind us and give us an opportunity to do what we possibly can this year. ‘We would all wish that you were here with us at Ingliston and hopefully what we put on and were hoping to put on will be the next best thing.