Don’t let AgriLive demise damage shows

Is it a case that the RASE is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn’t?

Is it better that it cancels an event which is likely to lose more money rather than ploughing on with it regardless?

Or will many people just see it as another indictment of an organisation that is out of touch and has lost its way?

The news that it and its event partner the Royal Smithfield Club have taken the decision to cancel this year’s AgriLive event will have come as a shock to some.

Launched last year, it was perhaps quieter than many would have liked, yet it was a good attempt to provide a technical and showing event for the red meat industry.

But for trade exhibitors and sponsors, finding money to attend and support additional events – and new ones at that – was always going to be difficult at a time of tight budgets.