Peter set to fly the Holstein flag for Ireland

CO CORK dairy breeder Peter Kingston will take on all-comers at the 5th European Holstein Show this weekend with his Quintana Melissa Grand, the February 2004 European champion at the Agribex Show in Brussels, having won the Irish Examiner Farming Supreme Championship at Millstreet a few months previously.

The Nohoval farmer will fly the Irish flag on his own in northern Italy this weekend other intended Irish exhibitors have backed out for various reasons, not least the expense of flying from Shannon to Paris and trucking for 18 hours to Verona, and a three-day return journey.

Sponsors such as feed millers Henry Good Ltd of Kinsale and the Irish Holstein Friesian Association are helping with the expenses, and Peter reckons his own costs and two weeks away from home will be worth it in order to represent Ireland and also for the personal challenge of boosting the profile of his Cradenhill herd, with this top quality cow which he has owned outright since last summer.