Organisers have yet to confirm final figures, but estimated more than 100,000 people visited Canterbury Agricultural Park during the three-day event.
Canterbury A&P Show event director Geoff Bone said that, despite the ''unruly northeast wind'', the show had again brought together the community to experience the best of what the province had to offer.
The show culminated in the announcement of supreme champion animal of show - supreme champion saddle pony Amberleigh Gold Touch.
The final line-up included two supreme champion goats - one each of meat and dairy breeds and both from North Otago studs.
The supreme champion Boer goat was Owen Booth's buck Viking 1009, imported from South Africa's Mugambi Boers in June 2012.
Margaret Tomes, of Island Creek, repeated her success of previous years, taking supreme champion dairy goat, this year with Saanen Lagooncreek Annalea.
Fittingly, for the 150th celebrations of Angus cattle in New Zealand it was the black breed which took this year's Meat and Wool Cup.
Waikaka breeder Rob Hall's 6-year-old Angus cow Lilliesleaf Boleyn and her calf shone in the cattle ring to take the coveted prize, a first for Mr Hall.
It was also a first for Philippa Trounce (29), of Rakaia and 5-year-old Fairview Dolman Jazz which was named supreme champion dairy cow.
Supreme champion wool sheep was won by North Canterbury farmers Jim and Ramona Sidey and meat sheep by Blenheim breeder Carla Jordan, with a Southdown ram.
Poultry breeder Doug Bain, of Dunsandel, won grand champion rooster, Robyn Robinson, of Governors Bay, took the award for champion llama and Martin Bennett, of Loburn, took the prize for best alpaca.
Supreme champion donkey was awarded to Cotswold stud owners Diana and John Humphries for Awapuni English Rose.
Canterbury farmer Mike Ryan took the overall award in the national mint lamb competition, with his Coopdale Suffolk-cross lamb.