International judges, local judges, interstate and local winners and a large crowd has seen the opening judging at the 2019 International Dairy Week.
The real action got underway on Tuesday where cattle from New South Wales and South Australia a well as the home state of Victoria, featured among the 12 champion broad ribbons on the day.
In the Illawarra breed judging it was an excited trio of owners, Glen Gordon, Ben Govett and Daniel Bacon that took home the broad ribbon for Supreme Champion Exhibit for 2019.
The win with their cow, Wullumlands Sundstorm 8, made it three from three broad ribbons.
The 2010 drop female sired by Apples Absolute-ET (Red) has been shown three times at IDW and was grand champion interbreed cow in 2015 (the first Illawarra to achieve the feat), and Grand Champion Illawarra in 2017 and now 2019.
In judging for the Guernsey breed it was NSW based Andrew and Abbey Crawford, Numbaa near Nowra, that exhibited the Grand Champion exhibit.
The five-year-old, Exkwizit Active Barbell, was senior champion cow and won the John Stephens Memorial Trophy for best udder.
The Crawfords bought the cow from the dispersal of Black and Gold Dairies in far north Queensland. The cow was by Sniders Goldust Activate and out of Exkwizit Aaron Barbie.
Tandara Brown Swiss stud, Dingee, again produced the goods at International Dairy Week Brown Swiss Show on Tuesday.
The stud took the grand champion, senior champion and intermediate champion cow awards, and also bred the junior champion cow.
The grand champion was the intermediate champion Tandara Bosephus Sarajevo 121, owned by Tandara in conjunction with Jayden Drake.
Tandara's Ben Govett said the cow from their successful Sarajevo family had turned heads at IDW last year.
"We thought she was pretty special - she's got a lot of admirers from all over the world," he said.
"And this year she has developed so much; she's probably the most exciting young cow we've ever had, that's for sure."
The three-year-old cow was on its second calf and was a big cow that produced a lot of milk.
Judge David Mayo, Gerringong, NSW, said the intermediate cow, which he also awarded the best udder award, had a bright future.
"This young cow is a tremendous young cow when you get up close to her," he said.
"She's a really good long dairy cow with lots of strength in her front end, the openess, the strength and the dairyness."
Part-owner Jayden Drake said he was over the moon with the win.
Mr Drake said he had helped Mr Govett at IDW for 10 years and had shown a few animals, but had never enjoyed the success of an IDW championship before.
Mr Govett bought the senior champion Miss Payssli Lola as a calf from his friends Kelvin and Ronnie Cochrane, Gympie, Qld.
The five-year-old cow's mother was a Queensland champion, and Mr Govett said when the opportunity came up to buy its calf, it was too good to miss.
A Gippsland-based dairy operation dominated the Ayrshire results at International Dairy Week on Tuesday.
The grand champion Rockvale Burdette Prim was exhibited by Jacob Mathews, while his mother Anthea Day and her husband Trevor Saunders exhibited the intermediate champion Aruluen Park Jumper Pam.
The animals are all run in the one herd in the family's operation at Shady Creek, Vic.
The family has bred Ayrshires since the early 1900s.
Five-year-old Rockvale Burdette Prim was bought by Mr Mathews as a pick from a pen of heifers when Max Hyland dispersed his renowned Ayrshire herd.
Prim has already tasted major success at IDW, being named interbreed intermediate champion and Ayrshire grand and intermediate champion in 2017 as a three-year-old.
Ms Day said she was a great all-round cow, in the top of the production indexes for Mr Mathews's cows.
"She's no fuss, she doesn't get any special treatment, she's just a really good cow," she said.
Judge Gregory Evans, from New York state, United States, said the cow had tremendous strength.
"This cow wears a phenomenal mammary system, she moves around the ring with such elegance and grace," he said.
The intermediate champion three-year-old Aruluen Park Jumper Pam was from a family that Mr Saunders had bred for more than 30 years.
"We just love the cow, she milks really well and just ticks all the boxes for us," Ms Day said.
"Her mother was an awesome Poker that we had a lot of fun with.
"She won up here as well, so that's the second generation winning up here."
Ms Day said it was amazing for the family to come away with two championships.
She said she liked Ayrshires because they were hardy cows that were easy to get in calf, with really good health traits.