Casino Beef Week offers visitors an opportunity to meet our farmers and take an educational behind the scenes farm tour.

The tour includes transport, morning tea and lunch.

Tickets and Farm Listings Released Soon

What to bring: Covered shoes, sunscreen and hat.

The festival will commence with the official opening gala ball that starts the Casino Beef Week celebrations, which has become one of premier festivals in Northern NSW. 

To be held on the Saturday on the first Beef Week weekend from 6pm, the 2021 official opening will include presentations of all Queen entrants and the crowning of the young woman who will represent the community for the coming 11 days during Beef Week and throughout the year until 2021. Great acts and live music will be the entertainment for the night with an opportunity to taste the best produce that the Richmond Valley has to offer with a delicious dinner.

Tickets for the opening night will be on sale soon.

The main Beef Week Saturday promises to be bigger and better with more events than ever!

Sit in the main street of Casino and soak up all the action that makes the Beef Week Saturday what it is. Pull up a hay bale and watch the cattle competitions and auctions and learn all the ins and out of what it takes to be handed the sash of ‘Champion Steer’. 

Take the kids for a stroll to the kid’s alley filled with amusement rides, market stalls, face painters and other entertainment. Listen to live music, visit the shops, and enjoy a wonderful afternoon! 

There is plenty of other things to see and do including the The Casino Food Co-Op Beef Expo tent where you can learn the tricks of the trade when handling Beef at home. Enter your country kids in the Junior Jillaroo and Jackeroo dress up competitions before going to check out the professionals at the Beef Week woodchopping competition! 

All this and more will keep you and the whole family entertained while gaining only the truest insight into a day in the life of a farmer in the Beef Industry! For more information contact us! 

If you are looking for a bargain, don't forget to check out the Craft Markets.

The Casino Beef Week Rural Ladies High Tea is your chance to soak up some inspiration and network with amazing like-minded people of the North Coast. Hear from inspirational speakers whilst enjoying a fine dining experience. There will be raffles, prizes, auctions and giveaways, not to mention your opportunity to mix in with the amazing community of ladies of the Richmond Valley. Grab your girlfriends, host your clients, treat your employees and don’t miss out on this empowering event that forms part of the huge 11-day festival that is Casino Beef Week.

Are you ready to be inspired?

Tickets are available at the Casino RSM. Contact 6662 1666.

If Rural Ladies High Tea makes you hungry, you'll also enjoy the free Breakfast with the Butchers the next day.

The Breakfast with the Butchers is the one morning of the year where the town of Casino all come together to enjoy a free breakfast in the CBD. Not only will you indulge in a free sausage or steak sandwich with chocolate or strawberry milk but will also get a kick out of everything from carnival games, a cow milking competition, cow pat lotto and live entertainment throughout the morning. 

Beef Week President, Frank McKey says “The breakfast is about bringing the community together, sample our delicious local beef and saying thank you for their ongoing support with a snag or steak.”

Catch the top 3 performers busking a MOOve at the grand final of the annual Country IT Busking Competition that morning, with the opportunity to perform in front of thousands of people and plenty of cash prizes up for grabs. Entry forms available here soon.

The Breakfast with the Butchers is also the place to be to witness the judging of the FINDEX Casino’s Best Beef Sausage Competition. The challenge is put to all butchers in the Richmond Valley to put their snags up for the test. Three judges sample each entry and will judge on factors including its presentation, content, colour and aroma where the stakes set in the Beef Capital are pretty high. Do you think that you have what it takes to be crowned the owner of Casino’s Best Beef Sausage?