This year’s co-presidents Rob and Trish McIntosh are looking forward to the show, which is well supported by the community.
The 104th annual Amuri A&P Show will be held at the Rotherham Showgrounds on Saturday, March 7.
"We feel the show is an integral part of the Amuri community, and the way everyone pulls together to help at working bees and manning different areas on show day is testament to how strong and close-knit this community is, in which we are incredibly fortunate to live," Mr McIntosh said.
"We also want to acknowledge the support of the sponsors, tradespeople, the judges, marshalls, stewards and volunteers, and in particular our new secretary Kim Balcombe and our treasurer Meg Macfarlane and the show committee for their great support."
Cattle will be judged on-farm ahead of the Amuri A&P Show, with no cattle classes at the Rotherham Showgrounds due to the ongoing challenges surrounding the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak.
Instead, there will be on-farm beef and dairy cattle competitions held next Tuesday before the show.
Prizes will be presented for the beef classes on Tuesday evening at The Rotherham Hotel.
Mr McIntosh was born and raised in Culverden in a sheep farming family, so the show is in his blood, with an uncle and a grandfather having been show presidents over the years.
He has been regularly involved in the Amuri A&P Association, helping at the show and serving on the committee.
Mr McIntosh met his future bride while travelling overseas, and the pair settled in Culverden in the early 1990s.
Mrs McIntosh is one of the local veterinarians and a director at the Culverden branch of North Canterbury Veterinary Clinics.
They run a 530ha irrigated dairy farm and run-off just 3km from Culverden, with contract milkers Brett and Kathryn Langford milking 1380 cows.
Young stock were managed at the run-off and at the couple’s dryland sheep and beef farm, ‘‘Timpendean’’, at Waikari, managed by Sean Dobbs and Nicky Mathews.
The McIntoshs have three sons, the eldest, Alexander, returning home to help at the show after a stint milking sheep in Ireland, before going to work on a cattle ranch in Montana.
Middle son Fergus is working in France, while youngest son Lachie is in his third year studying agricultural commerce at Lincoln University. Lachie will be back to help at the show.
