Ceisiadau da byw yn rhoi pwysau ar ofod yn Sioe Frenhinol Cymru
The Royal Welsh Show is so pressed for space to accommodate the increasing volume of entries that exhibitors of cattle and sheep are being asked to cut back on the numbers they are taking to the event. The problem is being exacerbated by the disproportionately increasing number of livestock vehicles and exhibitors’ caravans which have to be parked on the showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells.
“This has proved especially difficult for this year’s show and I know that exhibitors who have been unsuccessful with their requests for caravan plots in close proximity to their stock are fairly unhappy,” Harry Fetherstonhaugh, the honorary Show Director, told the society’s annual meeting at Llanilar, Aberystwyth.
“I sympathise with them but we can only work with the available space and we must conform absolutely to the regulations over spacing of caravans and other lived-in vehicles otherwise our licences will be rescinded,” he said.
Livestock entries for the 2010 Royal Welsh include a record 1158 cattle and 3145 sheep and overall entries total 7873, an increase of 290 on last year.
“”Some will say that record breaking entries is a nice problem to have,” said Mr Fetherstonhaugh. “I agree to a point but fitting everything in is proving to be an administrative nightmare and I feel the society’s Livestock Committee will need to come up with a workable formula for cattle and sheep, and possibly pigs and goats, so that the number of entries corresponds to the finite space available for the sections.
“There is the suggestion that there ought to be some form of qualification for stock entered for the Royal Welsh. This was considered many years back but for various reasons it was discounted and I still fail to see how it could possibly work.”
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