John and Ann Rowe (centre left) are greeted by ebthusiastic students when they deliver Yerrinbank Avon, Campaspe and Carron, to Melville High School, northern NSW.

Two more NSW high schools fall in love with Lowline girls

By John and Ann Rowe, Yerrinbank Lowline Stud, Kyneton, Victoria

Melville High School, Kempsey, in northern NSW and Barham High School in south western NSW, are now both running pedigree Lowline cattle purchased from Yerrinbank Stud. Yerrinbank Avon, Campaspe and Carron went to Melville High School in Kempsey in July. Yerrinbank Blyth and Yerrinbank Canning and a Lowline Cross steer went to Barham High School back in March.

Iven Denyer and his team at Kempsey have a very enthusiastic group of agricultural students. To say that the three Lowline girls were made very welcome is a gross understatement. The photos can only give an impression.

Iven is in the process of making Melville High School one of our new members and looks forward to involving their new Lowlines in showing activities and some of the students in our youth activities as well as correspondents to our newsletter. Ann and I greatly enjoyed meeting the Melville team and (apart from sharing cake and cordial) talking with them about the Australian Lowline breed and its background and future and about their other agricultural activities.

The journey to Kempsey was a great adventure for us as well. It was a 2900 kilometre round trip with our trusty trailer and the Lowlines were loaded at 6 am in a rainstorm. The storm brought down many trees and branches so we had to tiptoe carefully around fallen branches in the dark for the initial 50 kms of our first day's journey to Dubbo. We were very lucky to have been able to arrange with Tammy Breuer to offload the three cows overnight at Allambie Stud where we all settled down with the help of Tammy’s Dad and brother, Robert and Peter Miller. Day Two took us to Armidale where the Lowlines were made very welcome in David McDonald’s old horse yard before we delivered them to their new home in Kempsey just after lunch on the third day.

The Lowlines that went to Barham High School in March have already been shown by Ag teacher David Crick and his team of enthusiastic students at National Beef at Bendigo. Barham High School will be taking Blyth and Canning along with Blyth's new baby girl to Royal Melbourne 2008 where we wish them success and look forward to catching up.

It says much for the extended and extensive Australian Lowline family that we were made so very welcome on both our journeys by both old and new Lowline friends with the common interest of our great breed. Thank you to all. We look forward to catching up with you soon.

John & Ann Rowe (centre) pose with welcoming Ag-students of Melville High School, Kempsey and their Ag teacher Iven Denyer (four to John's left).

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