This year, UK Dairy Day will welcome an international line-up of judges to cast their professional eye over the National Shows for Ayrshire, Brown Swiss and Holstein which will be featured in the cattle show alongside Dairy Shorthorn, Guernsey and Jersey breeds.

For 2022, the Ayrshire Cattle Society of Great Britain and Ireland are delighted to announce the judge of their National Show as Lynn Lee from Smyrna, Tennessee.  Lynn is a lifelong dairy cattle breeder with a wide range of experience and has previously worked as an auctioneer, a type evaluator for the American Jersey Cattle Association and a show judge.

Lynn’s judging assignments over the past several years have included World Dairy Expo, the All-American Dairy Show at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Eastern States Expo, and the Ayrshire, Guernsey and Holstein shows at the North American International Livestock Expo. Lynn judged the 2007 All American Junior Jersey Show, the 2008 National Jug Futurity and the 2010 Western National Jersey Show. He has also travelled to Colombia, Canada, Finland, Guatemala, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to judge the National Shows in these countries.

Lynn and his family operate a 340 acre farm and over the years they have bred and owned numerous All- Americans and Reserve All-Americans bearing Lee’s Dixieland Prefix. He is also co-owner of Tradition Auction Services which is a full service auction company selling dairy cattle, beef cattle and farm equipment.

The Brown Swiss National Show will be judged this year by Italian judge Daniele Galbardi.

From a small village close to Iseo Lake, in the province of Brescia, North Italy, Daniele and his brother run Galby farm.  The third generation brothers have a herd of 50 Brown Swiss cows-in-milk, along with followers. The average annual production is 11,000kg with 4.15% fat and 3.84% protein. Their showing highlights include winning Reserve Grand Champion at the Italian National Show in 2010, winning Junior Champion in 2013 and taking Grand Champion and Best Udder in 2014.

Since 2008, Daniele has been a multi-breed classifier assessing Holstein, Jersey, Brown Swiss and Fleckvieh cattle and he has classified around 100,000 cows. Daniele has been judging Brown Swiss for many years and since 2016, he has been a member of the European Judging Panel. He has judged over 100 shows across Italy, including three times at his National Show. In 2020, he was honoured to be the official judge for the European Brown Swiss Championship and his judging has taken him to France, Switzerland and Perú.

Announced last month was the American judge, Adam Liddle, for the National Holstein Show.  Adam and his wife, Nicole, own and operate Liddleholme Farm, Argyle, New York with their children Anthony, Brock and Hailee. Liddleholme farm covers 300 acres and is home to 70 milking Holsteins. The farm has a strong focus on breeding with 37 cows currently scored as Excellent. One of Liddleholme’s greatest achievements was breeding the four times excellent Liddleholme Resurect Lu Ex97 4E.

The Liddle’s have had numerous All-American nominations and they are very proud to have bred or owned an All-American nominee for 13 consecutive years. Adam judged the Red & White Holsteins at the 2012 World Dairy Expo along with the International Holstein show in 2018. He has also judged National Shows in Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, Italy and Australia.

Lynden Bustard, UK Dairy Day Cattle Show Manager and Chief Steward, comments; “UK Dairy Day is delighted to welcome an international leading line-up of judges from across the channel in Europe to the other side of the Atlantic in America. The Cattle Show continues to be a major part of the event and is continually supported by breeders and competitors across the UK and Ireland.  With support from our sponsors, UK Dairy Day continues to offer free entry for cattle who are accommodated in first class housing at the venue. The calibre of cattle from all of the six breeds competing is always outstanding and we know UK Dairy Day 2022 will see some fantastic results in the show ring.”

UK Dairy Day will be held Wednesday 14th September 2022 at The International Centre, Telford, Shropshire.

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