First held from 19 to 21 June 1923, the Show remains a shop window for rural Kent life, attracting around 80,000 visitors each year.

The official programme listed details of a band and smoking concerts with a sports gala and carnival as a Saturday night grand finale.

There were 833 livestock, entries and 15,000 people turned out to watch the prize cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses take the rosettes.

From 1939 to 1945 it was cancelled as Kent farmers agreed that they needed to focus their energies on producing food for the nation.

In 1949 Winston Churchill arrived personally in Maidstone to collect his rosette and cup for breeding the first prize winner in a 'cow in calf' category at his farm in Westerham.

[3][4][5] In 2012, over 25,000 visitors were expected each day, but for the first time since 1964, the show was closed by bad weather - mainly severe rain over the preceding weeks.

In 2015 the Society established the Kent Rural Scholarship Scheme, supporting up to 3 new students a year studying a farming or land-based degree.

In the 7 years of running the scheme, the Society has sponsored 20 scholars, totally a donation of £60,000 in scholarship funds.