The best cattle he had ever seen at any American or European dairy show, was the fulsome tribute paid by Canadian Donald Dubois after he judged last week’s Emerald Expo 2012 show in Kilkenny.

Stephen Cadogan reports from the National Dairy Show at Millstreet.

EUGENE MURPHY and his son Sean from Waterfall in Co Cork have won the 2011 Baileys Cow award.

NORTHERN Ireland’s John A Patterson, from Crumlin, Co Antrim, showed the Alltech senior cow champion, Wiltor Goldwyn Lausine, at last weekend’s Emerald Expo Livestock Event at the Hub, Cillin Hill, Kilkenny.

MORE than 20 top holstein friesians from all over Ireland are expected to be shortlisted to compete for the Baileys Irish Champion Cow title at Virginia Show in Co Cavan on July 31.

VISITORS returning to the scene of last year’s World Holstein Friesian Conference Show at Millstreet will again see the best of Irish cows.

PART of the success achieved by one of the country’s leading export companies, Baileys, has been attributed to the quality cream produced by 40,000 dairy cows on 1,500 accredited Irish farms.

CO Dublin breeder Cyril Dowling showed the senior champion of last weekend’s National Spring Fair at Naas, Co Kildare.

MORE THAN 40,000 Irish cows are required to produce 50 million gallons of milk every year to produce the 2,260 glasses of Baileys that are consumed every minute of every day worldwide.