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RURAL LIFE<br />
18 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>December</strong> <strong>23</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Dave’spatience rewarded<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
Dave Neal has finally carried<br />
off the Supreme All Comers<br />
Trophy and the Glenalbany<br />
Cup at theOxford A&P<br />
Association’svelvet<br />
competition.<br />
‘‘I have beentrying to win<br />
them for the past nine to 10<br />
years,’’ he says.<br />
The winning head of velvet,<br />
takenfrom asevenyearold<br />
stag,weighed8.5kg,<br />
impressing the judges withits<br />
conformation and evenness<br />
across both tynes.<br />
It was an impressive<br />
competition for Dave and his<br />
wife,Sheila, who farm<br />
Roseford,near Coalgate.<br />
Supreme winner... Dave and<br />
Sheila Nealwith the winning<br />
8.5kghead of velvet.<br />
They also wonsecond prize<br />
in the opensection and<br />
carried off first and second<br />
placeinthe commercial class<br />
for heads up to 5kg.<br />
Dave bought the winning<br />
stag as athreeyearold from<br />
Southland, but bredthe other<br />
prizewinners himself.<br />
The couplerun 140<br />
velveting stags,plus 45 twoyearoldson40hectares<br />
of<br />
their140ha property. They<br />
also have 150 hinds.<br />
The Neals have been longterm<br />
supporters of the<br />
competition, which has run<br />
for more than 30 years. They<br />
say it is agreat opportunity<br />
for deer farmers and people<br />
in the industry to gather and<br />
talk aboutdeer farming,<br />
velvet and whatthe markets<br />
are doing.<br />
Competitors came from as<br />
far afield as Ashburton, with<br />
agood lineup from locals,<br />
too.<br />
Results: Supreme All Comers<br />
Trophy: Dave and Sheila<br />
Neal.<br />
Open Red (Glenalbany<br />
Cup):David and Sheila Neal 1<br />
and 2; Craig and Shane<br />
Cockburn3.<br />
District Red (Elder Cup):<br />
SlemintFarming Ltd 1, P<br />
Velvet ... Competitors and visitors examine heads of velvet at<br />
the Oxford A&P Association’s velvet competition.<br />
Wightman 2, StokesFarming<br />
3.<br />
Open Wapiti(JohnBarber<br />
Cup):Garth Free 1.<br />
Commercial(heads of<br />
velvet up to 5kg): Dave and<br />
Sheila Neal 1and 2; Stokes<br />
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South Island field days at Kirwee set to be acracker<br />
The 70th year of South IslandAgricultural<br />
FieldDays willbeone of the best yet,<br />
organisers say.<br />
Demand for exhibitor space is heading<br />
for asellout, despite there still being<br />
threemonths before the 2021event at<br />
Kirwee,near Christchurch,from March<br />
24 to 26.<br />
The committeehas been allocating<br />
tradespace across the 17hectare site, as<br />
well as the extra demonstration area.<br />
The event willsee more companies<br />
demonstrating their machinery than ever<br />
before, grounds committee chairman<br />
RodneyHadfield says. ‘‘This is the place<br />
that farmers cancome and see all the gear<br />
put throughits pacesbefore making a<br />
decision to purchase.’’<br />
It has been morethan 12 monthssince<br />
the lastbig agricultural show in the<br />
regionand organisingcommittee<br />
chairwoman Michaela McLeod believes<br />
that has helped leadtorenewed interest<br />
from exhibitors.<br />
“Farmersand industry people love to<br />
come together and share theirideas,do<br />
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