Your 2025 Royal Adelaide Show competition and junior judging timetable
Excitement is building with only a month until the 2025 Royal Adelaide Show.
The show will be celebrating a special milestone this year - 100 years at the current showgrounds.
Agriculture's finest animals, people and products will be on display from August 30 to September 7, from sheep to dairy and beef cattle, to goats, pigs and grains.
As well as the state young judges and paraders championships, the Royal Adelaide will also be holding the national championships this year.
Check out the timetable of competitions below.
Prime lamb and maternal sheep breeds (Sheep Pavilion)
Saturday, August 30
9am - Border Leicester, Corriedale, Ryeland and White Suffolk; 10.30am - Southdown; 1pm - Polwarth and Lambplan production classes.
Sunday, August 31
9am - Texel, Poll Dorset, Romney and Suffolk; 1pm - Dorper, White Dorper and Hampshire Down; 2pm - Australian White; 6pm - Champion Interbreed Pen of Three Rams followed by Combined Sheep Breeders Function.
Monday, September 1
9am - Champion Interbreed Lamb Production Terminal; 9.30am - Maternal Competition Lamb Production Class; 10am - Supreme British Breeds Group; 10.30am - Supreme All Breeds Group; 11.30am - Supreme Champion Ewe and Ram; 12pm - Presentation of Breed Trophies, Most Successful Exhibitor Awards and Wool Trophies.
Judges: Suffolk - Anthony Ferguson; Fibre Meat Plus - Greg Andrews; Ryeland - Ian Turner; Dorper - Steve Pederick; More TBC.
Merino, Poll Merino and Prime SAMM (Sheep Pavilion)
Wednesday, September 3
8.30am - School Wether Competition (North Ring); 1pm - Prime SAMM Judging (South Ring) and August Shorn Merino & Poll Merino (North & Main Ring); 5pm - Presentation of School Wether Competition.
Thursday, September 4
9am - Prime SAMM Young Judges Competition (South Ring), March Shorn Merino & Poll Merino (Main Ring); 5pm - Merino & Poll Merino Fibre Meat Plus Class Presentation, followed by Trophies and Wool Trophies.
Friday, September 5
12pm - Adelaide Stud Merino & Poll Merino Ram Sale.
Saturday, September 6
Shearing Competition Finals - TBC
Judges: Merino March Shorn: Merino Fine Wool Classes: Juan-Manual Gonzalez; Merino March and August Shorn Strong and Medium Wool Classes: Tom Kirk; More judges TBC
Beef cattle (Beef Cattle Judging Lawn)
Saturday, August 30
3pm - Grand Parade (including judging of Best Grand Parade Presentation by a School).
Sunday, August 31
9am - Led Steer Hoof Judging.
Wednesday, September 3
3pm - Grand Parade; 6pm - Led Steer Presentation of Awards.
Thursday, September 4
2pm - Heifer Challenge; 4pm - Herdsperson Competition.
Friday, September 5
North Ring - 9am - Speckle Park followed by Limousin, Square Meater; 1pm - Shorthorn followed by Red Angus, Dexter, Belted Galloway.
South Ring - 9am - Hereford followed by Simmental, Australian Lowline; 1pm - Charolais followed by Highland, Maine Anjou, MGABA.
Saturday, September 6
North Ring - 9am - Murray Grey.
South Ring - 9am - Angus.
2pm - Interbreed judging.
Beef cattle judges to be announced closer to competition.
Dairy cattle (Dairy Cattle Judging Lawn)
Tuesday, September 2
9am - Ayrshire and Guernsey; 1.30pm - Holstein and Illawarra.
Thursday, September 4
9am - Jersey - feature breed; 11.30am - Intermediate Supreme Champion Female; 2pm - Interbreed Supreme Judging.
Judges - Jersey - Russell Gammon; Holstein - Daniel Bacon; Ayrshire - David Mayo; Illawarra - Greg English; Junior Show - Mitch Flemming.
State Young Judges and Paraders Championships
Saturday, August 30
6pm - Young Farmers Challenge State Final, Main Arena.
Sunday, August 31
2pm - Poultry Young Judges Championships, Poultry & Pigeon Pavilion.
Monday, September 1
12.30pm - Meat Breeds Sheep Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion; 2.30pm - Dairy Cattle Young Paraders Championships, Dairy Cattle Judging Lawn.
Wednesday, September 3
9am - Dairy Cattle Young Judges Championships, Dairy Cattle Judging Lawn; 11am - Grain Young Judges Championships, Golden Grains Pavilion.
Thursday, September 4
9am - Prime SAMM Ram Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion; 10.30am - Merino Fleece Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion; 1.30pm - Merino Sheep Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion.
Sunday, September 7
9am - Beef Cattle Young Paraders Championship, Beef Cattle Judging Lawn; 11.30am - Beef Cattle Young Judges Championships, Beef Cattle Judging Lawn.
National Judges and Paraders Championships (invitation only)
Tuesday, September 2
Poultry Young Judges Championships, Poultry & Pigeon Pavilion.
Wednesday, September 3
12pm - Dairy Cattle Young Paraders Championships, Dairy Cattle Judging Lawn; 2pm - Grain Young Judges Championships, Horticulture Stage Goyder Pavilion; 4.30pm - Dairy Cattle Young Judges Championships, Dairy Cattle Judging Lawn.
Thursday, September 4
9am - Beef Cattle Young Paraders Championship, Beef Cattle Judging Lawn; 11am - Beef Cattle Young Judges Championship, Beef Cattle Judging Lawn; 1pm - Merino Sheep Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion; 4pm - Merino Fleece Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion.
Friday, September 5
9am - Meat Breeds Sheep Young Judges Championships, Sheep Pavilion.
Saturday, September 6
12pm - Young Farmers Challenge Quiz, Goyder Stage; 6pm - Young Farmers Challenge, Main Arena.
Pigs
Saturday, August 30
12pm - Performance & Objective Measurement Class.
Sunday, August 31
9am - Other breed, Large White, Berkshire and Landrace - feature breed.
Monday, September 1
9am - Ann Cook Memorial Trophy (Junior Paraders), Commercial Pork & Bacon Competition, Judging School Bacon Competition; 10am - Junior Pig Judging Competition.
Tuesday, September 2
School Pig Handling Competition.
Wednesday, September 3
1pm - Purebred Sales.
Judges: Ben McCormack, Guy Kiddy.
Goats
Thursday, September 4
9am - Led Goat Wethers judging.
Saturday, September 6
1pm - Boer Goat judging.
Judges - Thomas Youlden.
