Oupette, the star cow of the next edition will come with her calf

FRANCE – A little gentleness, in a context which promises to be tense again this year at Porte de Versailles. The organizers of the Agricultural Show unveiled this Friday, November 29, the featured cow for its new edition, which will take place from February 22 to March 2. Not without a surprise in store.

Indeed, the cow chosen this year will have the specificity of not coming alone. Since Oupette – that’s her name – is expecting a happy event before the end of the year. She must therefore come with her calf for the 2025 edition. Her fourth.

Of Limousine breed, Oupette has a bright wheaten coat but above all a puff. Which also inspired its name from its breeder, Alexandre Humeau. Coming from Vienne, this six-year-old cow succeeds Oreillette and Ovalie, the latest muses of the show which is held each year at the exhibition center in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

This surprise for visitors to the Agricultural Show should therefore delight young and old alike. But at the moment, the happiest seems to be his breeder, son and nephew of breeders, who is happy to participate in the Parisian event. “I can’t wait to come and share my love for the Limousine breed, and to transmit the values ​​of the agricultural world to visitors to the show”he emphasizes, in a press release.

At the head of a 430 hectare farm. Alexandre Humeau grows almost all of the feed for around a hundred Limousine cows, it is specified. “Raising animals is a vocation. But it is also a very demanding profession. This is the message that I want to convey to the public, as I do every day with my children” he adds. With Oupette, they seem to be the ideal candidates to embody this year’s theme: “A Land of Passionate People”.

It remains to be seen whether attendance will increase for this new edition. The previous one having experienced a slight decline in its visitors (-2%), disrupted by the discontent of farmers. Which also seems to be starting again with a vengeance at the end of the year. Last year, the visit of the Head of State was even disrupted by farmers angry at their increasingly precarious situation.