HISTORY has been made as this year's Great Yorkshire Show became the first in Britain to broadcast live across the world.
Action from the main ring is being sent by web cam to the show's Internet site - and to computers world-wide.
The images are updated every eight seconds.
Highlights for web viewers will include the JCB Dancing Diggers display and international showjumping.
David Bentley, managing director of Internet Providers Yorkshire Internet, said: "We believe it's the first show in the UK to have what is virtually its own world-wide broadcasting station."
The Internet first came to the show four years ago when results were posted on it.
This year's show also welcomes the first dot com exhibitor.
The Globalfarmers.com stand includes computers offering access to a vast bank of information on manufacturers and suppliers of farming products.
The site, launched in February this year, was expected to offer farmers the opportunity to study the market and actually buy from their own homes by the end of this summer.
Director Harry Emslie, himself a beef and sheep farmer in Aberdeenshire, said: "It brings the industry closer together and helps farmers, manufactures and suppliers work together towards a sustainable future.
"At the moment it offers only information and news, but that will be expanded this summer."
The site received a £3.6 million boost earlier this year after it was backed by the Bank of Scotland and Caledonian Heritable Investments.
It offers free access to farmers, with suppliers paying to use the site.
Mr Emslie said 17 per cent of farmers are currently connected to the Internet, with the figure doubling every year. The site receives up to 30,000 hits every week.
He said: "The Internet will never take over from the traditional market, but it gives an extra tool to make the farmers' life easier."
The Great Yorkshire Show site can be accessed on www.greatyorkshireshow.org while the first Internet exhibitor can be found on www.globalfarmers.com
PICTURE: Stella Main, of globalfarmers.com, at the Great Yorkshire Show
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