Year 9 Agriculture have been working hard to prepare seven steers for this event. We had three Square Meaters from Celtic Stud, two Murray Greys from Cadfor Murray Greys and two homebred steers, one from the Br Luke commercial herd and one from our Limousin stud cattle.
This event is a combination of preparing and presenting a detailed report on the steers, showing them and then judging of the carcass.
The Year 9 agriculture class had to create the report. It covered a lot of aspects from finance (lots of numeracy), handling timeline, graphing data and the science behind growing out a steer. Raul Kofe and Marshal Anderson then had to give a five minute oral presentation to a board of judges at the event.
This event was also attended by some select show team students.
The team absolutely did St Greg’s proud!
Results included:
Report Bronze medal - Herdsman (how clean the cattle and area were kept, how much the students participated and how well the team worked together)- 2nd place (by “splitting hairs”).
Junior judging:
Junior first place Billy Corkhill
Intermediate first place Massimo Pisciuneri
Senior first place Jacob Malvern
Senior third place Angus Pursehouse
It always makes my heart sing when we have a St Greg’s grand final. The boys went up against each other and Massimo took out Champion Junior Judge.
Parader Junior:
Junior first place Lucas Turner
Intermediate first place Hamish Crompton
Senior parader first place Angus Pursehouse
Second place Jacob Malvern
There were 200 students overall in this event and again, it was a St Greg’s grand final. Champion parader was Angus Pursehouse.
Massimo and Vincent also ran two workshops on the day, with over 250 students taking part, learning how to prepare the steer hair and clip. I ran a junior judging clinic and Jacob and Angus did a great job at assisting me with this.
Hoof results:
We achieved a third and two fourth places.
Hook results there were 76 steers in the event.
We came away with:
Bronze medal for two steers
Silver medal for three steers
Gold medal for two steers
Champion middle weight steer
GRAND champion steer on 96/100 points.
This was extra special as it was with one of our homebred steers.
This really is a team effort to achieve these results.
The students work closely with stud owners, James, Ryan, myself, their animals and each other. We also can not do these events without Emma in the laundry preparing the uniforms and cattle curtains, Julie printing stud cards and Danielle and Dee in finance processing entries, placing Woolworths orders and ensuring all costs are covered and paid.
For those of you that read the Land, you will notice a few articles on our boys from this event in there!
Hayley Mahoney