Stay tuned for more info about our next show day!
22nd February 2025!
2025 Foster Show Garden Competition
We're excited to offer our Open Garden Competition again for our 2025 show. Judges will visit entered gardens on Wednesday 27th November 2024 and winners will be announced on showday. Contact Kate Prain (see entry form below) to enter or for more information. Thanks to Foster Garden & Gravel for their generous prize sponsorship for this event.
Ferret Racing at the Foster Show!
Get behind Foster's Fastest Ferret at our 2025 Show for your chance to win big for your family or business! Sponsor a ferret for $100 for your chance to win $1000! Check out our Get Involved page for more info.
Plant your Pumpkins Now!
With a number of BIG entries at our last show, we're keen to see what's in store for 2025! We've teamed up with Atlantic Seeds again for our Giant Pumpkin Growing Competition. Seeds are available now and should be planted ASAP to give them the best chance of filling out in time for our 2025 Show. Contact Renee on 0407 348 641 or Den on 0425 728 525 to collect your seeds.
Open Garden Competition On Again!
Following the successful inaugural year of this competition, we're excited to offer it again as part of our 2025 Show. Judging will occur in late November or early December (date TBC) when gardens are looking at their springtime best. For more information, or to register your garden contact Kate on 0427 045 933.
2025 Foster Show Calf Classic
We want to encourage the next generation of livestock handlers by hosting our inaugural Calf Classic at the 2025 Show. Taking inspiration from the Hedley Calf Club that ran from the 1930’s-80’s, we can’t wait to see kids and their hand-raised calves on showday.
Kids are encouraged to rear a calf (assist with feeding, cleaning and husbandry associated with raising a calf), prepare it for showday (handle, brushing etc) and then present it before the judge at the show.
For more information contact Robbie Davidson on 5185 1341 or 0400 861 332.
Classes
1. Exhibitor under 10yo
2. Exhibitor 10-15yo
3. Exhibitor 16yrs and over
Competition Rules:
Calf must be reared by exhibitor
Calf must lead properly and be presented by the exhibitor on showday
Any breed of calf is eligible
Calf must be born after 1st July 2024 (no older than 8months old on show day)
Calves must be identified with an NLIS tag on showday
2025 VAS Competitions at the Foster Show
There's no better time than winter to start creating your next Foster Show winner! While there's an endless range of competitions in the exhibit shed for you to enter your craft and produce in, VAS competition exhibits are eligible to compete at the regional and state finals! Anyone can enter these, you do not have to be a member of any particular group/association. VAS classes have specific criteria and were excited to announce these now so you can start perfecting your entries for 2025.
Check out our 2024 Program!
Everything you need to know about competitions at the Foster & District Show in one handy booklet. Pick up your free copy this summer from many South Gippy locations including: Bendigo Bank Foster, Ag Warehouse Foster, Foster Post Office, Foster Foodworks, Foster Vet Clinic, Fish Creek General Store, Brown Wigg Meeniyan, Toora Post Office.
Also find your entry form for download below. Email it to fostershow@gmail.com!
Check out our Show Day Map & Show Guide below
Association Show Day Competitons
Bendigo Bank Woodchop Competition.
10.30am to 3pm on Show Day
Thanks to the Foster and Toora Community Bank, we’re excited to host a crowd favourite, woodchopping competition at the 2024 Foster Show! Run by the South and Central Gippsland Axemen’s Association, it’s sure to be an action-packed, must see event.
VYUFDA Foster Show Working Dog Trial
8am – 4pm on Show Day
Don't miss this showcase of the bond between man and dog. Competitors travel from all over the state to challenge their dog's ability. Thanks to Beloka Kelpies of Welshpool for coordinating this showday favourite!
Cat Show
All day in the basketball stadium
For the first time at the Foster Show in 2024 we’ll host some of Victoria’s most beautiful cats for all the public to enjoy. Thanks to the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy Aust & Vic Inc for running this event!
Showday Admission Prices
Purchase your tickets online or at the gate on the day!
Adult $15 (18 years and over)
Concession $10 (must produce student, healthcare or pension card)
Kids $5 (12-17yo), Kids (under 12yo) FREE
Come for the show. Stay for the surrounds.
Getting to the show. Foster Showgrounds, Station Road, Foster.
From Melbourne
Travel east on the South Gippsland Hwy towards Yarram. Turn right towards the township of Foster. Turn left at the main intersection (Station Road). The Showgrounds are located on the left before the South Gippsland Hospital.
From Yarram
Travel west on the South Gippsland Hwy towards Melbourne. Turn left towards the township of Foster. Turn left at the main intersection (Station Road). The Showgrounds are located on the left before the South Gippsland Hospital.
Via Public Transport
Whilst a car is by far the best way to explore South Gippsland, the VLINE BUS travels between Foster and Melbourne a few times each day.
Our Sponsors & Supporters 2024
Bronze & Community Sponsors
3mFM
Dawn Allan
Jeanette Allan
Amber Creek Farm
Atoll Travel
Bennison Adult Riding Club
Berrys Creek Cheese
Bruce & Jan Best
Brown Wigg Meeniyan
Browns Stockfeed
Bunnings Wonthaggi
B&D Clavarino
Corner Inlet Pony Club
Creamy Valley Produce
Dairy Australia
Dairy Pro, Foster
Bill Davies
Dirty Three Wines, Inverloch
Duesburys Gippsland
Exchange Hotel, Foster
Food and Fibre Gippsland
Foodworks Foster
Foodworks Toora
Forage Lab Australia
The Foster Mirror
Foster Pharmacy
Foster RSL
Foster Seafoods
Denia Gilheany
Gippsland Hills CWA
Golden Creek Olives
Gurneys Cider, Foster
Harris Family, Dumbalk
Hartley Wells Betta Home
Living, Leongatha
Homebush Pastoral
Inside Out Clothing & Footwear
JDL Insurance
The Kitchen Table, Foster
Meg & Rob Knight
Lacy’s Jewellers, Meeniyan
Latte Dah, Foster
MA Liley
C Mahomed Bulldozer Hire
Manna Gum Community House
Marriott Family, Yanakie
McDonalds, Leongatha
Don & Cathy McKnight
Moos at Meeniyan
Mr Fothergill’s
Julie Nicoll
Natural Living Foster
Jennifer Nieuwenhuizen
Nutrien Ag Solutions, Leongatha
Nutrien Harcourts Real Estate, Leongatha
O’Connell Motors
Oakleys White Lawyers
Outlook Dartmoors
Tom & Kara Oxley
Pandesal Bakery, Meeniyan
The Panton Store, Toora
Paragreen Real Estate
Glenda Paragreen
Sharon Paton
Peter Stoitse Transport
Howard & Jill Plowright
Prom Country Lodge, Foster
Prom Meats, Foster
Rare Earth Gallery, Toora
Ray White, Foster
Ride the Wild Goat
Lionel Rockman
Rotary Club of Foster
Neil Roussac & Anne Roussac-Hoyne
Sam’s Patch, Foster
Schreurs & Sons Pty Ltd
SEJ Leongatha
SEJ Real Estate
South Gippsland Camera Club
Southern Sass, Foster
Stockyard Gallery, Foster
Southern Stockfeeds
Stony Creek Racing Club
Storr Transport
Styling on Stanley, Toora
Sunbeam Foods
Tatters Guild of Australia – Vic Branch
Jessica Taylor
Terragen
Toora Footy/Netball Club
The Ridge on O’Grady’s
Tru Value Hardware, Foster
Trulli, Meeniyan
Victorian Livestock Exchange
David & Fiona Vuillermin
Jonno & Ros Wathen
The Windmill Café, Toora