# Lamb Champs 2025 made history at Hoër Landbouskool Boland in Paarl, featuring a record-breaking lamb carcass sale. Lamb Champs is an annual competition which showcases the best lamb producers from across South Africa. Louis Botha from Cradock in the Eastern Cape won, walking away with a cash prize of 40-thousand-rand. Botha will now compete at the national final in October. Meanwhile, a Dorper cross lamb from Pieter Cilliers of Philippolis in the Free State was auctioned for 72-thousand-rand to Kalahari Group, surpassing the previous record 63-thousand-rand.
Eastern Cape’s Louis Botha crowned winner of Lamb Champs 2025