On The Land
26 April, 2022
34th Dairy Youth Camp a success
ANOTHER chapter has been written in the annual All Breeds Educational Dairy Youth Camp, producing this year's set of competition winners at the Malanda Show Grounds recently.
A total of 433 students have gone through the camp over the last 34 years, some of whom have gone on to become respected judges of dairy cattle across Australia, while others have returned to the camps as tutors or to assist with running of the three-day program.
Some are successfully running their own dairy operations, and some have set up their own businesses as cattle fitters travelling the national and international show circuits.
The 2022 Overall Student of the Camp award went to Patrick English of Malanda, ahead of Runner-up Overall Student, Terese Daley of Millaa Millaa. The Junior Encouragement Award went to Arlo Jones, while the Intermediate Encouragement was given to Sienna Rielly and Aila Bevan received the Senior Encouragement award.
Team of the Camp award for the highest overall performers in the Youth Leadership Challenge went to Group 4 which contained Kimberly Daley, Aila Bevan, April Burtenshaw, Abigail Daley, Euleila Kanowski, Lucas Rielly and Kayla Tebay Dent.
Strongly supported by local businesses and the Tableland community, the youth camp delivered a ton of information about preparing, presenting, leading and judging cattle and a whole lot more, including public speaking, an ambulance presentation on first aid and the Carey Group accounting and financial services presentation on budgeting.
After two days of being trained in clipping, parading and judging, the event culminated in the Calf Day Parader Competition on Saturday where the heifers were judged in their age categories.
Terese Daley's exceptional heifer, “Gilbert Milos Haiti” won the Under 18 month category, was named Senior Champion Heifer and was also chosen in the Honourable Mention section, ahead of Patrick English's Reserve Champion Heifer and under 14 month category winner, “Eachamvale Kaye 20”.
In the younger entries, Rebecca Payne's “Ourway SJ June” was first in the Under-16 month section and Abigail Daley's “Millaa View Web Rosemary” won the Heifer Under-12 month category.
Mary English was awarded Junior Champion Heifer and Heifer Under-10 Months with “Eachamvale Stately 39” ahead of Lucas Rielly's “Millaa View Web Rosemary 2”, while Reece Rielly's “Eachamvale Pet 26” won the Heifer Under-4 Months and the Honourable Mention section. Team of the Camp, Group D's heifer “Long Lanes Ferdinand Rosemary” took out the Heifer Under-8 months category.
In other sections of the competition, Caitlin Channells won the Junior Clipping Award, Tara Bevan won the Intermediate and Patrick English won the Senior award. Caitlin Channells also won the Junior Judging Award, while Frances English won the Intermediate and Terese Daley took out the Senior category.
In the Parading arena, the Junior Parader Award went to April Burtenshaw, with Mary English winning the Intermediate and Terese Daley was victorious in the Senior Parader's category.
The All Breeds Dairy Committee members, Colin and Shelly Daley, Greg and Bronwyn English, Henry and Anna Bevan and Anne Daley would like to thank the judges, Paul Newland and Kelvin Cochrane, the shed and ring stewards, their ring announcer, record keeper, ribbon presenter and the great team responsible for the catering during the camp.
They would also like to thank their generous sponsors, Carey Group, Bega, Casali's, Smart Elec, Tableland Fertiliser, Advanced Rural, Holstein Australia and Jersey Australia, the AI Centre Malanda, Pizza on James, Rabobank, Atherton Trophies and Engraving and All Things Admin and Print.
