Agricultural Shows Australia: National 2024 junior | Australian Markets
Last yr’s national junior sheep choose champion will journey from his Tambellup farm to problem Agricultural Shows Australia finalists in September.
Meat sheep breeds judging finalist Brendan Lamont has been chosen to symbolize WA towards 5 State winners on the national championships held on the Royal Adelaide Show on September 5.
The annual occasion is designed to develop judging expertise for ages 15 to 25 and construct reference to industry professionals to help improve their abilities.
Mr Lamont mentioned qualifying for the 2025 championship was “nail-biting” and sudden as he was towards such sturdy WA candidates, however he’s optimistic concerning the upcoming occasion.
The 24-year-old sky rocketed from native reveals to a nationwide stage in 2019 when he certified for the meat sheep breeds national championships in Perth. The championship was delayed till 2022 in Brisbane on account of COVID-19, and regardless of not taking a ribbon he was the one choose who received all of the sheep inserting appropriate.
In 2024, Mr Lamont donned a blue sash after taking out the merino fleece national division in Melbourne.
Mr Lamont mentioned growing up on his household farm embedded a ardour for stud sheep, which developed when his former WA College of Agriculture Narrogin lecturers Colin and Ray Batt “pushed” him into it at 15 years outdated.
The fourth-generation farmer mentioned his best show second was profitable Supreme Breed along with his IIe-de-France ewe at Wagin Woolorama in March 2025 when he joined the race towards his two mentors.
“Ever since I left college, I wanted to keep being involved in showing sheep, so I started breeding IIe-de-France. The aim was to breed something better than Ray or Colin,” Mr Lamont mentioned.
“So this little 18-month-old ewe, she was the complete package, and she did it for me.
“Ray was very pleased, he said ‘yeah, you finally beat me, one of the best’. And Colin was very chuffed because the ewe was mothered by one of his sheep that I bought from him.”
Mr Lamont mentioned to arrange for nationals he has been freshening up on all of the completely different breeds, traits and traits, plus the usual of sheep desired on a skilled judging stage.
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