Agriculture Show Team

May 2024

With nearly 100 students having expressed interest in the Royal Show team this year, training has well and truly begun! We're thrilled to partner with current and past Westminster families and vested industry breeders in 2024 as we build towards the Royal Show in late August/early September.

This year, Gus Lewellyn from Jillangolo Red Angus and Heath and Amanda Nickolls from Bull Oak Well have both provided steers for the Led Steer program.  

Stephen Kellock once again has provided ten Kelvale bloodline Merino Wethers in collaboration with Anthony Lowe for the Merino Wether competition. 

We maintain our long-standing connection with Michael Leopardi as he has continued to provide us with Boer goats for our Led Goat team.

We are also delighted to begin a new partnership with Casey Treloar and Nick Brokenshire as we have acquired two Holstein and Jersey Heifers for our Dairy Heifer team.

Our final, thrilling new addition in showing this year has been our recent status as a Border Leicester stud. We will be showing some of our stud sheep in this year's Royal Show and we are truly grateful to Martin Harvey from Paxton Stud for the immeasurable amount of time, energy and effort he has put into this partnership. Our students are truly benefiting.

It has been pleasing to see a strong mix of both rural and metropolitan families have their children represented in the teams. This is a vital goal of our Show Team as well as our Agricultural Program as we look to normalise Agriculture and make it accessible for all. Jorja Watson, 2024 Show Team Captain, and her Showing Leadership team have worked very hard to ensure all students assigned to teams get the opportunity to not only work with animals and learn the ins and outs of showing livestock; but where possible, actually see how important structure, genetics and performance is to the various industries they represent.