Tomorrow...

Tomorrow night current and ex Silsoe Young Farmers celebrate 60 years of Silsoe YFC.

An evening of speeches, food, drinks and reminiscing about the memories of young farmers, followed by dancing at College Farm!!!

Pictures of the event will follow .... :)

Update from the Last Week....

Monday 14th April - County Activities Meeting, Shuttleworth College, 8pm 

On Monday members attended the Activities meeting at Shuttleworth whereby all past and future Bedfordshire Young Farmers Competitions and Events are discussed. 

Main points: 

• County Meeting - April 30th - Treasure Hunt at Wootton Park Farm, Wootton
• County Meeting June - Farm Walk
• Summer Sports changed to the Presidents Scrap Heap Challenge in June
• Rally Posters to distribute around the County have been passed to members. 
• Provisional dates for County Ball 2015 are Friday 30th January and Friday 6th January at Bedford Rugby Club

Tuesday 15th Apirl

Silsoe Girls have been practising Tug of War with the Kempston Ladies team every Tuesday ready for the Rally 'tug offs' against Biggleswade Young Farmers.

Wednesday 16th April - Club Meeting Easter Egg Hunt and Football

Members gathered at College Farm to have a go at an Easter Egg hunt and play some football. 

Messages from the County Organiser and Rally Committee: 

Good Morning Everyone ... Just a quick note about Rally Dance Tickets.

Last year a lot of Bedfordshire Young Farmers missed out on the chance of buying a dance ticket on Rally Day as they had all been sold out, and therefore they were unable to go to the dance.

This year to try and avoid this they are selling tickets prior to Rally Day for MEMBERS ONLY.

On stock Judging day they sold about 125 tickets and they only have about 450 tickets available for members.

The next chance to buy your Rally Dance tickets is at this month's County Meeting on Wednesday 30th April at Wootton Park Farm, Wootton. The Tickets are £8 each if you are unable to go to the County Meeting someone can buy your ticket on your behalf.

Any questions please ask 

Yesterday - Tug of War and Stcok Judging Competition

Yesterday was the 2nd day of competitions which makes up the Rally - the Stock Judging and Tug of War day.

Kindly hosted by the Shaw family at Mortgove Farm, Lilley the day consisted of Beef, Dairy, Pigs and Sheep Stock judging along with Equine Judging, Polutry Plucking and Poultry Trussing. The day ended with the Junior, Ladies and Men's Tug of War Competition. 

Overall Silsoe did brilliantly, the results were:

Junior parry cup
Leah Carter 5th
Will Timbury 4th 
Sophie Timbury 2nd

Intermediate parry cup
Alice Redman 1st

Senior parry cup
4th Charlotte Tomkins
2nd holly Jones

Parry cup team
Holly Jones, Alice Redman and Emily walker were entered in a team and came 1st

Overall parry cup
Holly Jones 4th
Alice Redman 2nd

Ladies tug of war
Silsoe girls won prelims but will pull again at rally day for first place 

Men's tug of war
Boys came 5th 

Unfortunately we don't know trussing, plucking or equine judging results yet

Well done silsoe!!!! 

Fence Erecting and Cookery Competition - TODAY!!

Today was the Bedfordshire County Round of the Fence Erecting and Cookery Competition, kindly hosted by the Hunts at Watergate Farm Hocklife.

In the cookery competition, teams of three had to prepare food for a post war celebration consisting of four different dishes. The Silsoe team, which consisted of Tom Harwood, Emily Walker and Elena Hernanz, cooked a combination of fish fillets, steak and steam puddings. 

The results were: 

1st Biggleswade 

2nd Silsoe

3rd Leighton Buzzard 

4th Woburn

In the Fence Erecting competition their were four teams who had 2 and a half hours to erect a short piece of fence with three different types of join in. 

Our team, consisting of Ben and Sam Jepps and Andrew Redman came 3rd.  Leighton Buzzard came 1st, North Beds 2nd and Bedford 4th. 

Well done Everyone!!

Pre-Rally - Sunday 16th March - Stratton School

Hello Everyone!!

Its that time of year again when Rally Preparations begin...

Firstly we have Pre-Rally this year at Stratton School on Sunday 16th March.

Biggleswade have given the competition day a revamp, please look at http://www.bedsyfc.co.uk/p/members.html

for a list of classes, and contact me to let me know which ones you are interested in doing :)

Wednesday 20th November - Trip to Franklins of Thorncote

This weeks meeting was a trip to Franklins of Thorncote Butchers and Farm Shop! 

John Franklin kindly took members around the farm shop and chillers to see how the business is run!

Afterwards members enjoyed sausages kindly cooked by Anna Franklin and Blanche Walker. 

Reminder:

Calendars are still on sale, £10 each 

National AGM Deposits are now due

Update from Executive Meeting - Monday 18th November

So last night was the first exec meeting following the election of new officers at the County AGM!!

At this meeting Silsoe Members Alice Redman and Charlotte Tomkins got voted in as County Social Secretaries for the year which means they shall be organising food for all YF events and the County Ball 2015. 

Also Silsoe members Charlotte Tomkins, Holly Jones and Alice Redman were also all elected as Eastern Area Representatives for Bedfordshire. 

National AGM Deposits are now due .... anyone wishing to go must pay a £100 deposit to secure a place!

County Charity chosen for the year is Papyrus

Calendars are still on sale, please keep selling (£10 each) !!!