It was another successful year of the Trangie Junior Judging on Monday with 80 competitors gathering from around the region for the exciting event.
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Although learning is not what you'd expect students to want to do on their first day of school holidays, everyone was excited for the day of educational competition at the Trangie Agricultural Research Centre.
Narromine and Trangie children took out some big prizes, with Nathan Leach from Narromine winning the overall pointscore champion and senior champion pointscore and Lauren Moody taking out reserve Senior Champion.
junior pointscore champion went to Luke Broughton and reserve went to George Burns both of Trangie where as Ruben Gill from Narromine took out the sub-junior champion most enthusiastic Award.
But the day is not about winning veteran junior judging over judge Ian Cameron believes.
"It's as much a learning day as a competition," he said.
"The little ones we teach what to do, and then we have the juniors and the seniors. Out of the seniors here today there's only two kids who haven't done it before."
Mr Cameron is very familiar with junior judging competitions as he has been competing and over judging for over 50 years.
"It's been 53 or 54 years I think," he smiles.
"I love helping kids for later in life. Helping them read sheep, look for the good things.
"Later in life it'll be what they should be buying."
Mr Cameron's main piece of advice is for junior judges to have a good look at the produce before they start touching it.
"Always said stand back and try and judge without touching them first, pick your favourite, more often then not that's it," he said.
There was smiles all around at the Trangie Junior Judging Day.