Community & Business
4 November, 2022
‘Udderly’ perfect school cows
RAVENSHOE State School’s resident cows have taken out the top spots for two North Queensland Farm Challenges over the recent school holidays.
Alongside Rashcoda dairy manager Russell Kidd, the school entered a variety of dairy cows into the competitions and spent their school holidays getting them into tip top shape.
Their first competition was the SEMEX Holstien on Farm North QLD Challenge where the school’s Raschoda dairy took second place in the four-year-old category and will now go on to compete in the Australia on Farm challenge.
Ravenshoe State School also took out fifth place for the three-year-old category and fourth place for the five-year-old category.
For the second competition, students spent their school holidays preparing for the Jersey Australia NQ Jersey On Farm Challenge, where they took out first place for the three-year-old section and second place for the mature (over six years old) cow section.
Mr Kidd’s dairy also took out Champion Cow with his three-year-old cow Raschoda Legend Sarabi 36.
“These accolades represent the highest achievement since the commencement at the dairy at the school,” Ravenshoe State School public relations officer Nicki Dyson said.
“A huge thank you to Russell who has shown dedicated to the herd and gave up his time to ensure our school’s participation in the event instead of skiving off like the rest of us on a public holiday.
“What an udderly wonderful result!”
