Murrumburrah High School Farm Club has once again been successful at the Royal Canberra Show when a team of eight students prepared and presented 11 Fleckvieh, stud cattle.
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The students had a busy time with junior judging and junior parading competitions as well as helping others out in the ring and in preparation for showing.
Rory Fogg and Gus Shea had an extremely busy time preparing an extra team of three Limousins for a local breeder on top of their other duties.
The students, under the watchful eye of their teacher and mentor Jan Young sold the Fleckvieh, a dual purpose beef and dairy breed, and are now preparing nine animals for the Sydney Royal Show.
It has been a busy time for the students and their teacher as they also competed at the Boorowa Show on March 2 and 3 and managed to walk away with the Blue Ribbons for Junior Interbred Heifer and Champion Steer.
“We did very well at the Boorowa Show, on a very long, very hot weekend,” Mrs Young said.
“But it gives the kids such a wealth of experience.
“They were helping to train young children, some as young as four years old, to handle the cattle. I think they learned as much as the little ones did.”
The Farm Club’s sights are now very firmly focused on the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
“The students and I will leave on Monday morning and the 9 animals will follow us to Sydney on Monday night,” Mrs Young said.
“We will unload the animals on Tuesday morning and we will all be in Sydney for seven days.”
One of the steers being prepared by the students was bred by retired stock and station agent Graham Simmonds, who is suffering from terminal cancer.
Mr Simmonds has decided to make a final gesture in appreciation of the support he and his wife Julie have received from the volunteers associated with the Young branch of Can Assist.
Mr Simmonds was on hand at the Boorowa Show with Julie to take a final look at his steer being prepared for the Sydney Royal led steer classes by students at Murrumburah High School.
Mr Simmonds will donate his share of the proceeds of the sale of the steer at the Sydney Royal to the Young branch of Can Assist, and Mrs Young has indicated her students will forgo the cost of feeding and preparing the steer and donate their share to Can Assist.
