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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AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SUPPORT
Recovery Assistance Point
The NSW Reconstruction Authority has established the Recovery Assistance Point in Taree.
Location: Manning Uniting Church, Albert Street Taree
Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday 10am to 6pm
Friday 10am to 4pm
The centre will offer a range of services:
- Help replacing ID and personal documents such as birth and marriage certificate, Medicare card, vehicle and vessel registrations and licences, and citizenship documents
- Legal assistance
- Insurance support and guidance on claims, policy coverage and clean up
- Mental health support
Rural Assistance Authority
The Rural Assistance Authority has concessional loans or transport subsidies available for primary producers. Visit www.raa.nsw.gov.au and select Disaster Assistance from the home page, or click on the link here: Rural Assistance Authority
Local Land Services
Local Land Services have specific advice on activities land managers can do to assist in the recovery of their property following a flood. Visit www.dpi.nsw.gov.au and select Emergencies, Floods and Storms from the home page, or click on the link here: DPI - Floods and Storms Information
Agriculture and Animal Services
Phone 1800 814 647 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm) for emergency fodder, to request animal assistance and welfare assistance, veterinary advice and if required, euthanasia and burial.
The Agriculture and Animal Services Functional Area (AASFA) has announced they are supporting dairy farmers to cover the cost of initial veterinary consultation and treatment through private veterinarians who are authorised to provide emergency treatment for animals impacted by the floods.
Examples of Eligible Situations
- A large portion of your dairy herd develops mastitis after being dried off due to flood disruption. A vet attends and provides antibiotics.
- Cattle develop lameness from standing in inundated paddocks. A vet attends to assess and treat the affected animals.
Affected dairy farmers are strongly encouraged to contact their local veterinarian as soon as possible if their herd has been impacted.
Please note: this support does not cover follow-up consultations or ongoing treatments beyond the initial visit.
Complete the Primary Industries Natural Disaster Damage Assessment (PinDDA) survey
The survey allows the Department of Primary Industries to gather, analyse and report on damage to primary industries and animals after natural disasters. This information helps a range of government agencies, industry organisations and communities understand the scale and regional distribution of the impact of a disaster on agriculture, plan for recovery activities and target resources and assistance in an area. Visit www.dpi.nsw.gov.au and select Emergencies, Emergency Management, Community from the home page or click on the link here: PinDDA Survey
Health, Wellbeing and Financial Support
Rural Financial Counselling Service
This service provides free and impartial rural financial counselling to eligible primary producers, fishers, and small rural businesses. They help identify options, negotiate with lenders, develop an action plan, help support access to the Farm Household Allowance and provide information on assistance schemes.
John Dunbar taree@rfcsnr.org.au (02) 6551 5879 or 0448 035 143
Rural Aid
Rural Aid has a variety of services including free confidential counselling, financial assistance, fodder, domestic water, and the farm army. Visit www.ruralaid.org.au and select Help for Farmers or click on the link here: Rural Aid
Farmgate Support Program
The Farmgate Support Program provides free mental health to people living and working in rural and remote communities. It is designed to meet the needs of individuals, couples, and families, whether they require short term conversations and information or ongoing formal counselling options. Contact details:
Phone: 0477 322 851
Email: HNELHD-FarmgateSupport@health.nsw.gov.au
Legal Support
- Service NSW: 13 77 88 (for personalised recovery help)
- Legal Aid: 1800 801 529 (for free legal advice)
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Just wanting to do a massive shout out to the Wingham Tigers for all your efforts over the past week! It’s so empowering and great to see community spirit in action.
We are so appreciative of all the support everyone has given through and during the clean up of the flood, but want to give a special mention to the incredible team at the Tigers. An awesome team who worked hard to clean houses, check in on people, feed the town and ensure supplies are getting to people as needed- even right down to a hot shower.
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It was certainly a pleasure to work alongside you guys from the Wingham tigers and the Wingham Beef week committee today being able to help those people in need of help and for feeding the community and the butchers in Wingham that donated meat to keep everyone fed what an amazing community