After huge demand the Yorkshire Agricultural Society has made an additional 2,500 tickets available on each of the four days, increasing the daily capacity from 35,000 to 37,500, a welcome move for the hundreds of businesses assembled, all trying to sell their goods and make a profit. Tickets have sold out on every single day.

Becky and Andrew Dunn. Becky has the stall Born to Farm and her husband, Andrew is a beef and pig farmer farmer.

I spoke to some stallholders and farmers attending the show to get their reactions and to ask about the challenges they have faced this year. It seemed to be a tale of two very different stories, with stallholders loving the hot weather and farmers hating it.

This is Abbie Manning - POSH Country

Tolu Oyebola from Butternut Box

The problem with the Great British weather is that it affects everything. Too much rain is disastrous for crops; too little is even worse.

I spoke to two farmers who both told me that the challenges they have faced this year have been affected by last year's weather, and they worry that this is how things will be in the future. Poor crops from last year’s lack of rain have inevitably made this year’s hot summer even more problematic.

These farmers anticipate feeding livestock bought-in feed, which will obviously affect their profits. This is a worrying admission and, of course, will impact what the general public has to spend when they see their own bills increase as a result.

Stallholders, on the other hand, were very optimistic, although Becky Dunn of Born to Farm, whose husband is a farmer, admitted that people will undoubtedly be tightening their belts with the cost of living rising. This is Becky’s fifth year at the Yorkshire Show, and she has increased from a single pitch in her first year to a double one this year, and says her sales have increased year on year.

Aside from the obvious hard work of coordinating everything and setting up the stall, Becky is confident that she will do well.

Another stall holder, Abbie Manning of P.O.S.H Country Clothing, was at the show for the third year and is again happy with how things are going. For her, the 2026 show was shaping-up well with end of the week and later in the afternoon seem being typically the best times to be a stallholder.