Overview

• The GYS Innovation Awards recognized pioneering agricultural solutions with DeLaval Plus taking top honours for its AI platform that turns herd data into actionable insights.
• Britain’s Fittest Farmer heats tested participants with truck pulls, wheelbarrow races and keg heaves as free health checks and fitness challenges underscored farmer wellbeing.
• Delegates at the Future Farmers of Yorkshire Breakfast Meeting and in the Innovation Zone explored emerging agri-tech designed to improve farm efficiency.
• Landowners and farmers used the show’s platform to lobby against proposed inheritance tax reforms that would limit farm relief to the first £1 million.
• Organisers responded to visitor parking complaints by deploying free shuttle buses, issuing travel updates and adjusting entry procedures to ease congestion.