A team of Charles Sturt University (CSU) animal science and livestock production students has returned from northern NSW confident in the new meat grading skills they gained while training and participating in the 2008 Australian Intercollegiate Meat Judging Competition (IMJC) held in Armidale. Competing against university students from across Australia as well as students from Japan and the United States (US) in July, third year agricultural science student Mr Campbell Ross was selected in a group of ten to undertake a national training program with Meat Livestock Australia in Brisbane in November. Mr Ross, from West Gippsland in Victoria, has a chance to be included in the final Australian team to compete in US competitions later this year. CSU Professor of Animal Production, Peter Wynn, said “it was also very exciting for second year animal science student Ms Tiffany Robertson from Camden, NSW, to be named as one of the fifteen finalists in Armidale, as the competition was dominated by third and fourth year university students.”. The CSU team of fifteen students was among the largest participating from any Australian institution. Training at local abattoirs was conducted by fourth year veterinary science student Mr Richard Saunders who was a member of the Australian IMJC team to tour the USA in 2004.