Urrbrae Agricultural High School's students will get their chance on Friday to experience all the sights and sounds of a Royal Show without leaving their school grounds.
With the cancellation of the 2020 Royal Adelaide Show, agriculture coordinator Damien Brookes says they wanted to offer a substitute and have spent the past four months pulling together Urrbrae on Show.
The aquaculture, honey and livestock enterprises will be opened up to the 600 secondary school students at the school and there will also be a farmyard nursery, tractor rides, whip cracking, sheaf tossing and shearing and farrier demonstrations.
There will even be a Green Brick Road showbag featuring iconic SA brands such as Fleurieu Milk, Beerenberg and Ashton Valley Fresh designed to replicate the Royal show's Yellow Brick Road Trail.
Representatives from agribusinesses Elders, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Regional Skills Training, Viterra, Coopers Animal Health and PIRSA will also be keen to discuss careers in agriculture.
Mr Brookes hopes it will be a good showcase of the agriculture students' hard work and also enable them to compete in the livestock handlers classes that they missed out on in September.
For some students it will be the first time they will see behind the scenes in the ag blocks.
"It will be a celebration of agriculture in a year that has been pretty tough for many of our students and a good way to recognise our Year 12s and school community," he said.
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