Tiia Shiels, 15, and her fellow agricultural students from Moama Anglican Grammar couldn’t walk past the Beloka Kelpie demonstration at the Elmore Field Days without passing up a cuddle with nine-week-old future working dog Ella. Ella was bred by Beloka Kelpies and may end up with a new home in Texas.
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Rechelle Zammit
Bubbles and Farmer are ready to do their job for their boss, Paul Macphail, from Beloka Kelpies. They put on regular mustering demonstrations for the crowd.
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Sisters Tanae Ovens, 5, and Sienna Ovens, 2, of Bamawm had their faces painted in their favourite colours.
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Rechelle Zammit
Wanalta's Katrina Ogden, the organiser of Shearing for Kids With Cancer, was raising money for the charity inside the shearing shed at the Elmore Field Days..
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Elmore Field Days volunteers Mindy Murray, Ellie Hayes, Shirley Falconer, Mary Stroud and Michael Stroud. The catering division marshalls about 200 volunteers, generating 1500 person hours for the week. Proceeds raised go back to the community groups represented by the volunteers.
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Rechelle Zammit
Jack Geard, 4, from Brighton in Tasmania, is keen to try all of the machinery on show.
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Bubbles and Farmer, from Beloka Kelpies, demonstrate their sheep handling abilities.
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Brothers from Bendigo, George Bickley, 5, and Charlie Bickley, 9, with popcorn planted by the machine behind them, which is an early riser planter ER2110.
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Bendigo's Joshua Manassa, 7, learning about local geology from geologist Ryan Singh from Agnico Eagle Fosterville Bendigo.
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Elmore's Reece Cowan, 8, Nate O’Sullivan, 8, and Jimmy Hayes, 10, with Frankie Hay, 11, and Roy Whitfield, 10, from Hunter near Elmore.
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Bendigo's Thomas Kennedy, 11, having fun on the huge Case IH Steiger 785 Quadtrac at the O’Connors stand at Elmore.
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Checking blood pressure at the St John of God stand in the Elmore Field Days Health Hub were nurse Denita Blackley with St John of God ICU liaison nurse Nicole Crameri.
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Lockington brothers Tyson Murphy, 9, and Brock Murphy, 11, try out the Case IH paddle tractors, which were up for grabs from the O’Connors exhibitors giveaway.
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Tanae Ovens, 5, of Bamawm had her face painted in her favourite colours.
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Rechelle Zammit
Naneella and Elmore farmers and cousins Hamish Glass, Declan Miller and Austin Glass on a Kubota M7132 Premium KVT tractor on the Bertoli stand.
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Macey Watt, 4, with her dad Kris Watt from Bendigo, panning for gold.
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Hudson Ross, 7, from Bendigo, enjoyed a tour through the Royal Flying Doctors aircraft.
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Close friends from Australian Christian College Echuca, Kate Carroll, 14 and Hayley Wickham, 14, tried the face painting tent.
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This is the way to see the Elmore Field Days. William Jaeschke, 7, had his own battery-powered vehicle, complete with protective shade and trailer, thanks to his engineering dad, Adrian. Dad also held the steering remote control in case William got carried away. His four-year-old sister, Anna, had her own vehicle. The family was visiting from the Mallee.
Georgia Kennedy, 8, from the Blue Mountains getting her face painted by Danielle Wilson from Bendigo.
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Rechelle Zammit