The country’s biggest one-day rural show at Tullamore will have a new layout for its 2013 event at Butterfield Estate on Aug 11.

AS many as 50,000 people visited Tullamore yesterday to learn about Irish agriculture.

Organisers do not expect weather problems for next Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show, where exhibitors will flock in search of some of the €165,000 on offer for the best livestock, home industries, dogs, inventions, poultry, best dressed lady, glamorous granny — and much more.

Ireland’s premier show and summer event is almost upon us!

A labour force of 470 are striving to overcome the summer washout and ensure that one of Ireland’s top agricultural shows goes ahead successfully.

FORESTERS are obliged to record accurate measurements of the quantities of timber they remove from woodlands during the current thinning season, caution experts at Teagasc.

TEAGASC will focus on forestry felling licences and stack measurement at this year’s Tullamore Show.

THERE is no sweeter scent to the nostrils of country people than the smell of freshly cut grass in fields drenched with warm sunshine.

THE role of agricultural shows has been praised by Government ministers north and south, Brendan Smith and Michelle Gildernew.

THE sheer scale of Tullamore Show next Sunday reveals why it is aptly hailed as the country’s “Ag Olympics”.

THE annual Tullamore Show represents the resilience of the Irish people, according to Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

THE organisers of Tullamore Show and AIB have linked up to elevate the livestock classes at the event to a new status.

ALARM clocks and wake-up telephone calls had people jumping out of their beds at dawn around Tullamore yesterday.

Up to 50,000 people are expected to attend Ireland’s largest agricultural show today.

THE celebrated Tullamore Show tomorrow will turn that part of Co Offaly into the undisputed capital of rural Ireland for the day.

SOME 50,000 people are expected to attend Tullamore Show, which will be held on a new site at Bluebell, three kilometres from the Co Offaly town.

PLANS are going ahead for Tullamore Show which will be held on a new enlarged site on the Butterfield Estate at Bluebell, Co Offaly, three miles from the previous location, on August 9.

THE celebrated Tullamore Show, which had to be cancelled in each of the past two years because of weather conditions, is to go ahead on August 9 next at a new site.