International Dairy Week 2022 at Tatura: Your guide to the results

International Dairy Week is back at Tatura. See the competition winners, videos and our interviews with farmers.

Interbreed Intermediate champion

CHAMPION: Jersey cow, Kings Vale Joel Made, Roger Perrett

National Holstein Show Intermediate champion

CHAMPION: Eclipse Altitude J Princess, Red, Robsvue & Busybrook

RESERVE: Byrne Lea Octane Buttersnap, Rowlands Park

HONOURABLE MENTION: Avonlea Tatoo Dixie, J & C Gardiner

Red & White Intermediate champion

CHAMPION: Eclipse Altitude J Princess, Red, Robsvue & Busybrook

RESERVE: Gorbro Unstopabull Admire, Gorbro Holsteins

HONOURABLE MENTION: Lightning Ridge Cmd Dback Barbara, J Jennings & B, E & R Thomas

Declan Patten and Bradley Cullen were not even primary school age when International Dairy Week began three decades ago.

Now the dairy duo are running the nation’s most prestigious cattle show, which kicked off this week in Tatura.

Mr Cullen, 27, and Mr Patten, 33, were set to take over the reins last year from IDW founder Brian Leslie before the pandemic put a logistical spanner in the works.

However, the event kicked off on Sunday and the new team, which includes co-ordinator Stacey Leppert, have ushered hundreds of farmers and exhibitors to the Tatura Park.

Declan Patten co director of international dairy week and Stacey Leppert event co-ordinator. Picture: Zoe Phillips

Mr Cullen, who grew up on a dairy farm along NSW’s south coast, has previously attended IDW as a photographer as well as an exhibitor.

“Brian (Leslie) has established an event which is so highly regarded throughout the dairy world,” he said.

“When the opportunity came up to take over the management of Dairy Week, we were really keen to get started. We want Dairy Week to be a celebration of our industry. It’s so well regarded within our sector but we hope in the coming years to get more people outside of dairy involved and understanding how the sector operates.”

Mr Patten, originally from Gippsland, has spent the past decade working in the dairy sector both in Australia and on an American farm outside Chicago.

“Pre-pandemic, I was heading over to the US pretty frequently,” he said.

“There’s a real pride in agriculture in America and an understanding of the importance of dairy that we want to bring here to Australia.”