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OXFORD A&P SHOW<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>March</strong> <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Farming in the<br />
blood ... Show<br />
president Marie<br />
FitzPatrick has<br />
been successfully<br />
juggling alot of<br />
commitments in<br />
the leadup to the<br />
Oxford A&P Show.<br />
She is pictured<br />
with Joe Fouhy<br />
from the<br />
Glenworth Angus<br />
Stud, in the<br />
Manawatu, at a<br />
Timperlea Angus<br />
on farm sale.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED<br />
Marie amaster at multi-tasking<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
RunninganAngusstud,raising<br />
anewborn child andpreparing<br />
foranA&Pshowis allina<br />
day’swork for Marie<br />
FitzPatrick.<br />
The 28yearold is set to<br />
becomeone ofthe youngest<br />
show presidents when she<br />
presides over the Oxford A&P<br />
Show on Saturday, April 3.<br />
“Things do take abitlonger<br />
whenyou're ayoung mumand<br />
afarmer,but weare getting<br />
good atmultitasking,” Marie<br />
says.Having an engineer<br />
husband at home to take care<br />
of the farm machinery<br />
certainly helps. Andrew<br />
FitzPatrickwasraised on a<br />
sheep andbeeffarm at Fairlie.<br />
“I have averysupportive<br />
husband who has been able to<br />
look after the farm, and the<br />
machinery is getting alot<br />
bettertreated,”she says.<br />
“I canstill do thestock work,<br />
but Ican’t quite fit it all in.”<br />
❛Our show has areally good committee, which is<br />
very supportive and quite young in comparison to<br />
other committees. ❜<br />
Baby Margaretwillbebarely<br />
eightweeks old on show day,<br />
but has alreadybeenpresent<br />
forscanningattwo weeksold,<br />
weaningatfourweeks,and<br />
was“outandabout” at anonfarm<br />
heifer competition at six<br />
weeks. “She will know thatthe<br />
Angusisthebestbytheendof<br />
it,” Marie says.<br />
The family’sfarm, Timperlea<br />
Angus,has 120 studcowsand<br />
will host thethird onfarmbull<br />
sale in October.<br />
“It’svery exciting. It’s been<br />
very well supported and we’ve<br />
had some really good averages;<br />
and everyone seems to be<br />
pleased withourbulls.”<br />
Marie andAndrew also<br />
winter graze dairy cows for her<br />
—Marie FitzPatrick<br />
sisters and keep enough sheep<br />
“to train the dogs”.<br />
“Withthebaby around, the<br />
dogs are getting alotless<br />
attention thantheynormally<br />
do,soweneededthesheep to<br />
keep them busy.”<br />
Marie’s sisters, Victoriaand<br />
Hazel, andtheir respective<br />
partners GlenTraynerand<br />
Matt Clark, sharemilkfor their<br />
parents, Clarenceand Linda<br />
Timperley.<br />
TheTimperleyfamilywillbe<br />
well representedinthe crops<br />
andbaleageclasses,and the<br />
baking and jam classes, while<br />
Marie’s nieces will be<br />
competing in the highland<br />
dancing section, organised by<br />
her sister, Victoria.<br />
“The hay and baleage<br />
competition is going to be hotly<br />
contestedbyour family to see<br />
who’s going to win.<br />
“We’re all going to the show,<br />
so mum is on grandparent duty.<br />
Between us there’s seven<br />
grandkids.”<br />
Marieis partofayouthful<br />
presidentialteam,with senior<br />
vicepresident Letitia<br />
Schroeder (whowould have<br />
been president last year) and<br />
Steve Macauley bothunder40.<br />
“Weare really lucky. Our<br />
showhas areally good<br />
committee, which is very<br />
supportive and quiteyoungin<br />
comparison to other<br />
committees, so we will<br />
hopefully haveabit more<br />
longevity.<br />
“And we have an amazing<br />
secretaryin ChristineRoberts,<br />
who doesn’t want any more<br />
young mumsfor awhile.But<br />
we arereally luckytohaveher<br />
as sheruns it like awelloiled<br />
machine.”<br />
Dairy cattle to make awelcome return to show<br />
Dairy cattle will make a<br />
welcome return to the Oxford<br />
A&P Show on Saturday, April<br />
3.<br />
While beef cattle made a<br />
return for the 2019 show, dairy<br />
cattle classes are being offered<br />
for the first time since the<br />
Mycoplasma bovis outbreak<br />
nearly four years ago,<br />
executive officer Christine<br />
Roberts says.<br />
‘‘We are really grateful for<br />
the support that we’ve<br />
received from dairy exhibitors<br />
that have put their trust in us<br />
and are coming back to the<br />
show.’’<br />
The relatively low numbers<br />
of dairy cattle means there<br />
will be plenty of room to<br />
spread out the cattle, to ensure<br />
no nosetonose contact.<br />
Dairy cattle classes were<br />
planned for last year’s show,<br />
which was cancelled because<br />
of Covid19.<br />
This year’s dairy cattle<br />
judge is making the trip down<br />
from the <strong>North</strong> Island, while<br />
the beef cattle judge is coming<br />
up from Southland.<br />
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Shearing –celebrating50years at Oxford Show<br />
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