On August 3 and 4 competitors from across NSW holding national and state championship titles will be in Nyngan for the two-day competition.

Trainer Gary White said hosting the trials with the Expo will be good opportunity to showcase the sport.

"It will combine with the rural expo theme, because sheep dogs are an inaugural part of life on the land working sheep, cattle and goats."

Handlers and their dogs will have fifteen minutes to compete the course, which Mr White says is focused at what is done on a farm with an all-round dog.

"Everybody there gets to compare each others dogs and how they're going with them," he said.

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"The competition utility trial is about 80 per cent kelpies, they seem to dominate utility trials, and the other 20 percent is probably boarder collie dogs," he said.

This year's competition will see the novice and open combined into one run.

"There'll be a good line up of dogs," Mr White said.

"There'll be dogs there that at the moment hold the South Australian Utility Championships title, the Victorian Championships title and the NSW championships title."

Mr White has also judged trials around Australia and was recently asked to hold working dog clinics in the USA, Europe and Scandinavia to impart his knowledge.

"I'm very lucky. What I'm doing over there is teaching sheep dog enthusiasts, mainly kelpie enthusiasts how to train their dogs and get the most out of them in a working situation," he said.

Mr White thanked the community for their support of the utility trials, especially when times have been tough.

"We are grateful to Jack and Dione Carter for the loan of sheep and their generous donation of two nights accommodation at the Riverside Caravan Park for our judge, Robert Cox from Manildra," he said.

"We would also like to thank Nyngan Toyota, Tony Walsh sheep and cattle pregnancy scanning, Carter Lindsay and weber, Nyngan RSL club and HM Lowe & Co for their continued support which enables the trial to run."