Education News

This report summarises the educational activities at the Royal Norfolk Show and assesses the impact on young people.

The Royal Norfolk Show is delighted to announce that it will host His Royal Highness (HRH) The Duke of Edinburgh at this year’s show on Thursday 27 June.

The John Innes Foundation (JIF) Undergraduate Bursary Award Scheme finances one student per year who is taking a three-year degree course in Agriculture, or a related discipline.

We are delighted to announce that His Majesty The King has graciously agreed to become the Patron of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association.

Heavy horse enthusiast Derek Spanton, who has died aged 83, went to his first Royal Norfolk Show in 1952 aged 11. He was taken by his coal merchant uncle to Raveningham, near Beccles – and over the following nine decades, he returned to the show as a trade exhibitor and competitor in veteran and agricultural…

Robots, precision spraying and investment in automation were key themes seen by around 40 RNAA members on a tour of a progressive farming and vegetable packaging business outside Brandon, Suffolk.

A self-taught painter Geoffrey Burrows, who has died aged 89, was a successful exhibitor at the Royal Norfolk Show’s art show for four decades.
A figurative painter in oil and watercolour, he was born in St Faith’s, near Norwich, and went to Paston Grammar School, North Walsham. He became a telecommunications engineer and then a BT manager in 1991. He lived in Spixworth and took up painting after attending an art class at Sprowston School.
He began serious painting in the late 1960s and was soon exhibiting in London and further afield.

‘Our aspiration is to ensure that through providing grant funding and support, Norfolk is producing the best farmers possible’

Daniel Zeichner, Shadow Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will focus on the major issue of food security as keynote speaker at the Norfolk Farming Conference.

A hi-tech robotic milking system has helped boost the productivity and health of cows at a Norfolk dairy farm.