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Of particular comment was the attendance by politicians of all parties. They seemed particularly interested in the Care Farming work, the climate change display and animal welfare. The Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham MSP even had a go at Dave McCracken’s remote control Spider Challenge, although he is keeping mum on the score.
 
You may be keen to know the official winner of the SAC Spider Challenge was Chris Nairn, a 14-year-old boy from Currie in Midlothian who did it in 42 seconds when he came through the SAC stand with his school early in the show. Chris won one of two model lapwings. Runner up was Charlotte Morrison, a 10-year-old girl from Linwood in Renfrewshire who did it in 45 seconds while visiting the stand with her parents on Sunday. Congratulations to both winners. 

Another winner at the Royal Highland was ITI Techmedia  who won a sliver medal awarded under the Royal Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) technical innovation award scheme for their telemetric monitoring system mounted in a cattle collar. 
 
The technology aims to reduce production costs through the early, remote detection of conditions in cattle, including oestrus and parturition.  ITI Techmedia were invited to share the SAC stand at Ingliston as SAC has contributed to the ITI R&D programme on condition-based monitoring, providing skills in modelling and on-farm product development.

ITI Techmedia commissions research and development programmes to generate market-driven, commercially-focused business opportunities in the digital media and communications technology sectors. Through extensive research of global markets, it identifies future commercial opportunities and drives the formation of innovative R&D programmes. The result is a portfolio of commercially valuable, cutting-edge intellectual assets, which are owned and exploited by ITI for the benefit of the Scottish economy.