The Royal New Zealand Show in Hastings in two weeks' time will showcase some of New Zealand's leading young stockmen and and women in the Royal Agricultural Society's Young Judges Competition.
The winner of the competition at the October 21-23 show will represent New Zealand in Australia.
A trans-Tasman contest will also be held at the Royal Show in Hastings next year.
Royal Agricultural Society initiative to engage youth in the art and science of judging Show animals, the competition is strongly supported with representatives from the major A&P Show districts throughout New Zealand.
There has been considerable Hawke's Bay success in the event, notably with Northern Hawke's Bay farmers daughter Nancy Crawshaw who won the New Zealand Young Judges Competition at the 2013 Hawke's Bay Show and last year, at the age of 18, won the Australasian Stud Beef Cattle young judges competition at the Royal Queensland Show in Brisbane.