Melton's Stockmarket set to host 73rd festive fatstock show and sale
Melton Mowbray’s popular annual Christmas Fatstock Show and Sale will be the 73rd edition of the event.
It all takes place at the livestock market and Stockyard site, off Scalford Road, on Saturday December 6, with prizes awarded for the best animals and local produce.
Members of the Melton and Belvoir Agricultural Society (MBAS) organise the show, which is held between 10am and 4pm and which is open to the public.
Livestock will be judged in the cattle market followed by an auction of the prize-winning cattle sheep and pigs.
Participants will be hoping to match last year’s record auction prize for a Champion Beast – a British Blue Cross Heifer entered by C&G Davies of Gaddesby – which sold for an impressive £16,000.
The produce judging and trophy presentation will take place after noon in the exhibition hall with locally-produced cheeses, pies, sausages, baked items and preserves competing for the coveted Best in Show cup.
There is a home-baking contest for adults and one for children, with the youngest entrant this year just two-years-old.
A public auction of all prize-winning produce will take place around 2pm, with proceeds shared between the Mayor of Melton’s charities, Pepper’s – A Safe Place and Melton Mencap, and local farming causes.
This year will also see a Junior Art Competition being held, in collaboration with The Kathryn Saunby Art Studio in the town, with judging by the general public.
Fiona Long, a member of the MBAS committee, said: “It should be a great day and we encourage people who are attending the Christmas market to take a look at what is on show.”