Thursday 17 April 2014

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 


Monday 14 April 2014

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!!!! 

Sunday 6 April 2014

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!!