Be careful not to rub your nose or stretch your arm at the Levin AP&I Show this weekend - you might be the proud owner of cow.
For the first time a livestock auction will be held at the annual show with the excitement of the auctioneer's call sure to draw a crowd.
Carrfields livestock representative David Haworth said the sale was fair dinkum with genuine buyers and sellers. All stock on show would be up for sale.
Haworth said it the show was a good fit and a chance to showcase what goes on at a stock auction to townsfolk that might have never seen one before.
Stock sales had been a regular part of the rural landscape in Levin fore more than 150 years and the sale at the show would take much the same format as a it always had.