MORE than 20,000 people are expected to flock to a show which has been organised to compensate for the loss of agricultural events this summer.
The Farming and Countryside Show is taking place at Pickering Showfield, in North Yorkshire, next month, in an effort to bring a much-needed boost to businesses hit by the foot-and-mouth crisis.
Several major agricultural companies, which would have been at the Great Yorkshire Show, will have displays at the event on August.
Organiser, local businessman Simon Boak, said: "It will be the biggest agricultural show in the region in the absence of other shows which were to have taken place.
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