Young Farmers

rocking the A&P Show,

as per usual.

It's pretty fearce competition at the old A&P Shows

among the Young Farmers

when there is Regional Competitions up for grabs.

Reuben being very serious about the sheep judging.

He won so it was worth it.

I like that the boys dressed appropriately for the judging.

There are rules about this.
Stock judging is very serious stuff.

This girl was there for the breed showing.

She's way too good to be thrown into the stock judging.

The showing people are very into winning

mostly because it helps their stud business.

The more red ribbions they win the better it looks for the quality of their stock.

I bet this is the only thing this farmer scrubs down.

She sat in her poop.

That's what cows do really.

She gave him a kick for his troubles.

Some people paint their animals up,

this usually is rubbing off by the end of the day

and the animals look like some kid has drawn outside of the lines.

Huge bulls, huge.

They can be a bit nudgy as they walk.

Then theres the fencing comp.
That's building a fence.

I've never seen a fencing fight in my life but

I have seen plenty of fencing competitions.

This one is the Tasman Region comp

and the winning pair goes to the National Final.

It's all on in the sun.

Ok I admit I know not much about fencing

but I bet I know more than you do

but maybe not as much as Charlotte does.

Charlotte and Nigel the judge and Prez of FCANZ

had a bit of a chat about the criteria for judging the lines.

They talked about this

and this

  and knots

 and gates

I know you are probably kicking yourself for missing this

two hour fencing competition

but don't worry we have eight of them a year

all around the country.

Next one is the National Final at Invermay near Dunedin

on Thursday May 24th.

Let me know if you want to join us.

The judges moved in.

Dave, in the black there was the organiser of this comp.

Nigel in the blue runs all of the comps

from afar usually cause he is always off putting really hard fences up

in random places with no cellphone coverage.

Then the winners and organisers get to go in the

Grand Parade around the arena.

Lisa, Reuben, Sarah and Lucy carried the flag for Young Farmers.

Ripper day it was.