{"id":3384,"date":"2020-10-09T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/west-clubs-are-challenged-to-help-promote-3-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T16:20:56","slug":"baleart2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/baleart2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Speyside are Bale Art Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3386 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Lower-Speyside-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bale art depicting a rural twist stay at home, social distancing scene has been declared the best in Scotland after winning a national competition for young farmers.<\/p>\n<p>After a week of making people smile across Scotland, the bale art structure situated at the Kinloss junction, A96 and created by Lower Speyside Young Farmers\u2019 Club emerged Bale Art champions \u2013 beating 49 others entrants.<\/p>\n<p>Gemma Bruce, SAYFC National Chairman said, \u201c<em>it has been fantastic to see members embrace this year\u2019s Bale Art theme, \u2018something to make you smile\u2019 in support of the RSABI #KeepTalking campaign and have relished the challenge under Government guidelines and social distancing.\u201d<br \/>\nGemma continued \u201cWe also have been delighted to have Galbraith on board supporting this event for a second year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Competition supporter, \u00a0Galbraith saw associate of the firm, Alice Wilson join Alan Laidlaw, RHASS and RSABI\u2019s Chairman, Ewan Pate as the three judges tasked with ordering the club\u2019s bale art structures from twelve finalists to a top three \u2013 no easy decision.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Bathgate JAC\u2019s \u00a0\u2018Lets beat COVID hands down\u2019 gained second place with their hand standing bears taking attention at junction 3A on the M8<br \/>\nForfar JAC\u2019s \u2018Not all heroes wear capes\u2019 , admired on the A90 north of Dundee, aced them third place in their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>SAYFC would like to thank all property owners for allowing the eye catching designs to be positioned on their land, capturing public attention and raising awareness to the RSABI \u2018Keep Talking\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2nd &#8211; Bathgate<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Bathgate-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3rd &#8211; Forfar<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3387 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Forfar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bale art depicting a rural twist stay at home, social distancing scene has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"venue":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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