 My name is Ian Myrla. I show Illawarra cattle at the Adelaide Royal Show. We go back many years and I'm quite proud to say that I'm now going to be 65 this year. I think I might have been three or four when I first went to the show. My mother's father first purchased their first Illawarra in about 1930 and registered their first Illawarra calf in 1932. In 1935 my mother won chant in cow at the Adelaide Royal Show. In 1937 my father's father first registered his first Illawarra and started showing in Adelaide some years after that. I'm a third generation Illawarra breeder. I think I've got the blood in my veins of the Illawarra breed and now my son and granddaughters are now part of showing cattle at the Adelaide Royal Show. So it's five generations that we've been doing it. The show itself is a great way to display your animals to the general public in South Australia and we do get a lot of very different comments when people walk through the sheds especially with milking the cows and if there's a cow having a calf at the show. It's bringing the country to the city and I think that's also very very important for our industry. When you go to the show you think I might be able to win a ribbon or two but it's winning those real big golden ribbons of the interbreed makes it so special and it's probably the pinnacle of what we try to achieve and they come around very very rarely. 2012 was probably our really really biggest year winning Supreme Champion Dairy Cow and our cow was unanimous first choice with all the judges in that ring that day and we couldn't really get any higher accolade than that. That particular year we also won Supreme Intermediate Champion so to get the two top in milk awards that year is something that was very very special. I've got two sons, Ryan and Trent and they've also been part of the show and now Trent has got his little family of two daughters and his oldest one now she's going to be three in a couple of days time and she talks about the show so it's been in our blood all of these generations. I think I've been to the show nearly every year of my life and it's a good friendly place to be and to watch your family grow up doing what your family's done for generations is pretty special. I've got two daughters now that come to the show as well and watching them interact with the cattle and going up and patting the cows and as they get a bit bigger they start to get into the leading of the cows it's quite special to watch them grow up and continue on what the family's been doing for years. When I was nine years old my father passed away and the year after that we still show the Adelaide show under very very difficult circumstances and the amount of help from other Illawarra exhibitors that helped us get our team to Adelaide show that particular year was just incredible and it's something I'll never never forget of they all went to the show to win their ribbons they were all ever so generous in helping us be part of that team that year and it's been able to continue on from then and I think that is where showing and the family and everything else comes into it that you're there to win but you're also there to help your fellow breeders.