Excited youngsters attended the winners’ ceremony at the Farmer Information Centre at Adelaide University’s Roseworthy campus last Wednesday.

Their entry – a life-sized fibreglass cow decorated with a map of the milk production cycle – was entitled Cow-C-Um (hint: say it slowly).

She won from the runner-up Moona Lisa, submitted by Tanunda Lutheran School, and third-placed Cowpunda, from Kapunda Primary School.

They were the regional winners announced in a national project that sees students decorating a life-sized fibreglass cow as part of an innovative program.

The Picasso Cows Curriculum program offers primary school students a new awareness of agriculture and dairying’s links with nutrition through art.

The cows, art materials and the integrated curriculum module that form part of this program are supplied to participating primary schools by Dairy Australia, the national industry-good organisation. Each school has the opportunity of keeping their cow at the end of the program.

Picasso Cows dovetails into another Dairy Australia educational program – Cows Create Careers – a program that is specifically designed for secondary students.