United States photographer Julie Ashton at International Dairy Week in Tatura.
While most of the cows entered in the International Dairy Week are Australian grown, the event hosts quite a number of overseas visitors.
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Julie Ashton, the official ring photographer for IDW, grew up on a registered dairy farm near Chicago, Illinois, and has been photographing cattle for the past 15 years.
“I actually went to college to be a large animal veterinarian, and while I was in college, I did an internship for a magazine, the US Jersey Association, just to do something different,” she said.
“I realised I could take my love of showing cattle and combine a lot of different aspects of what I enjoy.
“It’s kind of grown from there.”
Julie is also the general manager of the international all-breeds dairy magazine Cowsmopolitan.
“We picture about over 200 shows a year in North America,” she said.
“We’re the official photographers for World Dairy Expo, which is the equivalent of IDW.
“(The IDW group) has seen our photography work over the last couple of years, reached out, and here we are.”
Julie said Cowsmopolitan was thrilled to be here again, photographing IDW for the second year.
“I think it’s really cool that there’s so many exhibits from all over Australia (that) really bring everyone together.
“I always tell people I meet that aren’t involved in agriculture, it’s like horse racing or dog shows; it’s just with cows.”
Maci Crothers from New York, led the winner of class 9 in the youth show, a heifer born between July and September 2022. The heifer belonged to Sun Vale Holsteins of Numurkah.
Also putting the ‘I’ into IDW was Maci Crothers, 14, from New York.
Maci was working as a handler for the Anderson family’s Sun Vale Holsteins stud, from Numurkah.
She is visiting Australia with her parents who have a farm in the US.
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