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Royal Adelaide Show

Catherine Miller

RAC Farming's Rachel Chirgwin, Manoora, scans a young Berkshire boar, Bungendore Koonibba 690. It was one of 16 pigs she scanned for a trial. Picture by Catherine Miller

The 2023 Royal Adelaide Show was a huge week for livestock exhibitors but it was also a busy time for Mid North based scanner Rachel Chirgwin, RAC Farming, Manoora.

Rachel relishes role as show livestock scanner

Katie Jackson

Orroroo Area School students and teachers with their pen of three wethers which were awarded the best meat value in the wether competition. Picture by Jacqui Bateman

Orroroo Area School has returned to the Royal Adelaide sheep shed with a bang after a four-year hiatus, bringing the school wether competition's heaviest sheep with them.

Mid North school makes Royal Show return

Kingston Community School's Neville Hines, Olivia Birchall, Piper Stenner, Edward Bradley, Katie Hines, Kate Parker, Hugo Pilmore and Delta Robinson. 

Students from Kingston Community School have been named the most professional in the ring during the Royal Adelaide Merino Schools Wether Competition, which can be attributed to time, effort, desire and consistency, according to the students.

South East students' dedication rewarded

Unity College, Murray Bridge, blew their competition out of the water at the Royal Adelaide Show school wether competition, taking home supreme exhibit in addition to most valuable fleece. Picture by Jacqui Bateman

A whopping 234 sheep went out for judging during the Royal Adelaide Show's school wether competition, up by 12 from last year's record attendance.

Unity sashed supreme in Royal Adelaide ring

Kiara Stacey

Second place Rhys Erickson, Tailem Bend, champion Nathan Meaney, Kapunda, and third place getter Brandon Waters, Warrambo. Picture by Kiara Stacey

The top three competitors were selected to represent SA in the national sports shear competition at Jamestown on October 21 and 22.

Shearers gather for SA shearing heats

Yorke Peninsula breeder Peter Button receives a life membership plaque from Australian Stud Sheep Breeders Association president Neil Kroehn.

Yorke Peninsula Hampshire Down breeder Peter Button was awarded life membership of the Australian Sheep Breeders Association during the Combined Breeders Function in the sheep pavilion at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Button recognised for efforts for combined sheep society

Stock Journal's Conor Lamond with Allendale's Alastair Day and Angus Day. Picture by Katie Jackson

A pair of Allendale Poll Dorset rams have taken home the champion sash in the Interbreed Lamb Production Export class, with a score more than 10 points ahead of its nearest competitor.

Allendale goes back-to-back in lamb production class

Vanessa Binks

Margaret Miller, Wallaroo, and supreme exhibitor Dean Smith, Cohuna, Vic. Picture by Vanessa Binks. 

Boer goat studs took to the showring at the Royal Adelaide Show and impressed the judge.

Strzboer supreme exhibit impresses judge

Kevin Crook, Claire McGauchie, Angus and Richard Halliday and Danni Wilson with Tamaleuca stud's winning Lehmann trophy for the best group of five August-shorn sheep. With no Merino group, the Tamaleuca team from Ouyen, Vic, were elevated to supreme group. Picture by Jacqui Bateman

Tamaleuca stud, Ouyen, Vic, achieved a long held dream of winning the Lehmann Trophy for the best group of five August shorn Poll Merinos at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Tamaleuca stud triumphs for top long wool group

Dairy state young handlers champion Lucy Newman with judge Caitlin Hentschke. Picture supplied.

The state young dairy hander champion has exhibited the Ayrshire's granddaughter of the cow she won in the junior division nine years ago.

Beef handler reins in dairy youth handlers ring

URRBRAE Agricultural High School Year 8 student Aimee Blackmore was the first person to ever win both the junior pig parader's award and the junior judging competition at the Royal Adelaide Show.

URRBRAE Agricultural High School Year 8 student Aimee Blackmore with former pig breeder Lindsay Baker and the pig junior parader's award.

Junior pig parader's award entrants Urrbrae Agricultural High School Year 8 students Alice Fleming and Larry Doyle, Mack Davis, Murray Bridge, Urrbrae Agricultural High School Year 8 students Cameron McSally, Charlie Dangar and Ben Hinks, judge John Singh, Urrbrae Agricultural High School Year 8 students Aimee Blackmore, Maddison McIntyre and Gryff Yorath.

Junior judging placegetters Urrbrae Agricultural High School Year 8 student Gryff Yorath, Eliza Davis, Murray Bridge, Urrbrae Agricultural High School Year 8 students Maddison McIntyre and Aimee Blackmore.

Commercial pig judge, O'Briens Wholesale Meats' Ben Cormack.

Free-range pork winners in the commercial judging, Flinders Free-Range Pork's Daniel and Haidee Williams, with Sophie, Tilly and Harry, Carrieton.

Mack and Greg Davis, Aroora Enterprises, Murray Bridge.

Shaun Blenkiron, Keyneton, Landmark's Colin Fawcett and David Schultz, Michael Blenkiron and Amy Blenkiron, Keyneton.

Judge John Singh, Byron Bay, NSW, with WA exhibitor Josh Lay, Esperance, and his best of breed Berkshire.

A Hampshire sow from Amy and Shaun Blenkiron. Gumshire, Keyneton took out best of breed in the any other breed category. It was the first time Hampshires had ever taken out the judging.

Judge John Singh with Amy Blenkiron, Keyneton.

URRBRAE Agricultural High School Year 8 student Aimee Blackmore was the first person to ever win both the junior pig parader's award and the junior judging competition at the Royal Adelaide Show.<br>

Pigs on parade | PHOTOS

URRBRAE Agricultural High School Year 8 student Aimee Blackmore was the first person to ever win both the...

Pigs on parade | PHOTOS

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