Farmers', breeders' and hunters' festival

The ANIMAL TECH International Fair for Animal Production, the National Show of Livestock and the National Gamekeeping Show will take place at the Brno Exhibition Centre From 22 to 16 April. The extra programme features national championships of beef and dairy cattle. As a novelty, the National Championship of Czech Spotted Cattle will be held in Brno.

A total of 200 companies will present themselves at the exhibition grounds. ANIMAL TECH and the National Show of Livestock will be located in Halls P and F and on the adjacent open areas. "Majority of companies are from the feed industry and agricultural, transport and handling equipment. Certainly, we cannot miss out exhibitors from the field of agricultural buildings, breeding services and other supplies for breeders and farmers – for example, electric fencing, stabling and the like," comments project director Petr Maliňák on the preparations at the expo. Demonstration sites in Hall P will host national championships and competitive cattle shows and a sheep, goat and pig programme. During the fair, there will also be an international meeting of Charolais breeders entitled "World Charolais Technical Congress", and on Wednesday, a joint auction of breeding heifers and embryos of cattle, held by breeders' associations, will take place in Hall P. Nearly one thousand farm animals will be available for viewing at the exhibition grounds.

Breeders' programme

• "World Charolais Technical Congress" – an international meeting of Charolais breeders
• National championships of beef cattle breeds
• National Holstein Cattle Championship
• National championships of the Jersey and Brown Swiss breeds
• National championship of Czech Spotted Cattle
• Normande Cattle Show
• Pig, sheep and goat shows
• Horse breeders' shows

Hall F will be dedicated to horses. There will be daily breeders' demonstrations of horse breeds, demonstrations of working with horses, communication with horses or working with young horses. The program includes, for example, lassoing courses, shoeing demonstrations, we will also see a team of Old Kladruber horses. A mountain trail course will be installed in the outdoor area, where there will be demonstrations of hand-held and under saddle competitions.

Additional extra activities include a beekeeping exhibition, and sales of farm and regional foods. Visitors can look forward to Timbersport competition on Sunday and Monday.

The National Gamekeeping Show will be located in Hall G1. Exhibitors will display hunting guns, optics, clothing, and other hunting supplies. As part of the celebration of 100 years since the establishment of the Czech-Moravian Hunting Association, visitors will see an exhibition of about two hundred unique trophies from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or watch the European Deer Calling Championships on Saturday.

The exhibition centre will be open from 9 AM to 5 PM (only 4 PM on Wednesday). Basic admission costs 110 crowns and is only available for online purchase on the expo website, while the cost at the gate is 180 crowns. Organised groups of more than 15 people will have a better price of admission on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday 26 April organised groups may visit the expo free of charge.

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