Wingham Beef Week
12th May - 16th May 20252025 Wingham Beef Week
12th May – 16th May 2025
Wingham Beef Week is a community-based event with a week-long program focusing on all facets of beef industry.
Wingham Beef Week provides students, juniors and producers with a rare opportunity to participate in live assessment, carcase assessment and evaluation, meat judging, beef appreciation workshops, parading and judging competitions.
The event aims to educate at ground level the next generation of our future junior beef enthusiasts in a hands-on environment to increase their knowledge/exposure to the Australian beef industry through education and competition. Producers use the event to pit their skills, and benchmark their finished product against other producers and industry peers by competing in carcase competition’s, both led and unled.
Wingham Beef Week is unique being the only such event in the State where participants have the rare opportunity of being invited by Wingham Beef Exports into their processing facility for carcase viewing, assessment and evaluation.
Wingham Beef Week is a subcommittee of Wingham Show Society.
Education through Competition
Wingham Beef Week is a community based event with a week long program which aims to provide the red meat industry youth and the general public with a variety of meaningful activities centered around the Beef IndustryFrom the President
It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the 38th Wingham Beef Week in 2025.
Wingham Beef Week is built around a week of educational experiences for passionate students, juniors, and producers, from the
show ring to educational seminars and abattoir visits. It aims to educate the next generation of beef enthusiasts in a hands-on
environment to increase their knowledge and exposure to the Australian beef industry through education and competition.
Producers can also use the event to test their skills and benchmark their finished products against other producers and industry peers
by competing in led and unled carcase competitions.
As a community-based organisation, Wingham Beef Week relies on the support of its many partners to conduct this significant event,
which delivers a unique learning environment for the youth of the Australian beef sector. As in previous years, Wingham Beef Week
is very fortunate to be supported by many sponsors and the local community. We gratefully acknowledge this support and ask all
participants to show their appreciation by supporting these businesses whenever possible. Importantly, Wingham Beef Week
provides the only cattle event that provides a full paddock-to-plate experience, thanks to the generosity of Wingham Beef Exports,
which allows access to the abattoir facilities. Again, we want to reiterate our thanks to NH Foods and Wingham Beef Exports, under
the leadership of Chris Black (General Manager), for this support.
In 2024, Wingham Beef Week grew significantly, with a record 73 entries in the Unled classes and 141 entries in the Led Cattle event.
Over 400 students across almost 30 schools participated in Wingham Beef Week, equivalent to over a quarter of the students who
study HSC agriculture across the state each year. Again, this year, the current weather and pasture conditions should make for a very
competitive year across all classes. As such, we have increased the prize money across the event to encourage increased numbers
and quality across the competition. I encourage local commercial producers to participate in these classes to gain feedback and
benchmark their cattle against other producers.
My greatest thanks to our Committee and Volunteers this year, who have worked tirelessly to develop an event that builds on the
Wingham Beef Week experience tradition. Please show your support to the Committee members and Volunteers around the
grounds—this event would not be possible without them.
Please mark May 12 to May 16 down in your calendars, and come along to enjoy an outstanding exhibition of beef cattle and
appreciate the efforts and skills of producers, teachers, and students.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
Josh Gilbert
President Wingham Beef Week
Wingham Beef Week 12th May – 16th May 2025
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Wingham Beef Week is scheduled for the 11-15 May 2026. Save the date- we’re looking forward to celebrating our 39th Wingham Beef Week event!
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In 1987, Wingham Beef Week started with a promise. A promise to showcase the best of the Manning Valley and the best of our community.
Over the last 38 years, the event has built upon this work. I’m reminded of the words of Grant Coleman, a former Wingham Beef Week President, who shared with us all at our event last year the importance of youth in agriculture and growing the numbers across the event to build upon this showcase.
I’m very pleased to say that our event is living up to this expectation.
In 2025, over 600 children participated in our week-long event, with over 480 students here on Wingham Showgrounds this week and a further 120 participating in the Wingham High School education day.
To give you an understanding of these numbers- that is equivalent to almost half the students who study HSC Agriculture at school across NSW, it’s 5 times the number of students studying a Certificate 3 or Diploma at Tocal College, and it is more students than who attend the University of New England and are studying a Bachelor of Agriculture.
But it’s not just the number of students involved that is growing. Last year, it was suggested to our committee that we also needed to lift cattle numbers, particularly unled cattle.
So we’ve invested heavily into this- and in 2025 we practically doubled the number of unled cattle. We had cattle come from both Queensland and Victoria this year, so we’ve definitely got the Wingham Beef Week message out! And, in addition to increasing unled steer numbers, we’ve also grown led cattle entries, with more cattle part of Wingham Beef Week than ever before.
To do this, this year we have quadrupled the sponsorship received by Wingham Beef Week by drawing on our connections across the agricultural sector, and have built our total prize pot to over $25,000 in prizes to attract more people.
This demonstrates the trust placed in our event by the local community, and given our role in building community here, our committee has invested over $70,000 back into this local showground in the last two years. That’s $70,000 on top of the fees we pay to run our event at the showground alone. This year, we purchased two new grandstands, we fenced the cattle show ring and invested in the marquee for the clipping area, and chairs and tables for the tea rooms.
But what makes me most proud of this event has been the growth in the youth who attend. Not the number of students, but the interest in our industry and commitment that truly shows that this is a sector our youth want to play a role in. It is our duty to continue supporting this.
We believe in the future of youth in agriculture in this region. We believe in creating an environment that lets students learn and thrive, while providing opportunities for producers to showcase the best beef in Australia.
We’re bullish about Wingham Beef Week’s future. We’re inspired to grow this event into one of the best learning experiences and agricultural showcases across Australia, and I think our committee has proven that we are prepared to support and grow the community around this event.
I want to thank all of the sponsors this year for their support of our event, thank the competitors from across the local region and interstate. And mostly, I want to thank our incredible committee and volunteers for their hard work and passion over the last 12 months. Your unwavering commitment to the vision of showcasing the best of agriculture in our region is admirable, and I am deeply grateful to you for your commitment.
Joshua Gilbert
President 2025
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The best event we look forward to every year. Thanks for giving our students and locals this opportunity
Fantastic event!!!
Jenny Caines
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A big thank you to the team at Wingham Beef Exports for your support in getting this article into the Barrington Coast Lifestyle Barrington Coast Magazine, featuring Wingham Beef Week.
We think we have a pretty great story to tell, and it definitely couldn't happen without the incredible support from Wingham Beef Exports!
Pick up your copy from across the region.
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We're so proud to be a part of it! 💚
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