Meet The Judges

Highly respected on the show circuit as a winning breeder and as a judge, Gwyn farms 200 head of beef cattle and 600 ewes on 700 acres in North Wales, recently achieving pedigree herd status for his home-bred Limousins. He has shown cattle with consistent success for more than 40 years, winning the English Winter Fair Championship in 2019 and is the only person to date to have wone the Welsh Winter Fair Supreme Championship three times.

One of Ireland’s most successful and respected producers of pedigree Limousin & Commercial show cattle, calves and embryos. A regular seller of top priced show cattle he has won and bred champion calf 5 times and reverse twice at tullamore national Livestock show since 2012  Pearse has also supported Agri Expo every year from its inception and in 2018 he took Reserve Overall Champion with a home-bred Limousin heifer .

John who in a lifetime of farming on the Welsh Borders established a reputation as one of the UK’s outstanding producers of pedigree and commercial sheep, finishing some 20,000 lambs a year by the mid 1990’s. A leading breeder of pedigree Suffolk rams, John was the first in the UK to breed cross-bred rams, specialising after foot and mouth on developing a winning combination of good genetics from the most successful terminal sires: Charolais, Suffolk, Beltex and Texel.

Now fully retired from farming, John has moved to Wetheral, not far from Borderway, and remains a dedicated supporter of the sheep industry and its principal showcases such as Agri Expo.