CNY Show is ON!
The water has receded and the show is ON! This week’’s tremendous rain and flooding conditions paralyzed much of central and eastern New York, but as they say, the show must go on! And indeed it will. The Central New York Holstein Show will be held as scheduled at 9am, Wednesday, July 5th in Norwich, NY. Cattle may begin moving in at noon on Sunday. John Marshman reports that the flood waters did not get into the barns, so while conditions are a little soft, they are still in great shape. The judge for the day will be Brian Carscadden, who will be asked to place over 200 entries.
We send our sincerest best wishes to those in Delaware and Chenango counties in New York, and through the rest of eastern PA, that recovery from the flood waters will be swift. We”ve heard stories about tiestall barns with 5 feet of water running through them, corn fields with 10-foot swaths cut through the middle and all the corn washed away, as well as the Select Sires bull barn in Tunkhannock being without power - thank goodness for generators. Further south, the Conowingo dam on the southern most end of the flooded Susquehanna River, has all but three gates open. They”re trying to move water through there as fast as possible…if the last three gates have to be opened, the nearby town of Port Deposit, MD, will be completely under water. To date, no one from the Holstein industry has been harmed, and we”re thankful of that!