New Zealand Young Farmers Launches FMG Young Farmer Of The Year Season 55 | Scoop News – Scoop

Thursday, 1 September 2022, 3:23 pmPress Release: Young Farmers

New Zealand Young Farmers (NZYF) is proud to launch theFMG Young Farmer of the Year Contest into its 55thseason.

The Contest kicks off on the 15th of October2022 with the first of 11 District Contests to be heldthroughout Aotearoa. NZYF members are invited to registerfor the agricultural challenge where theyll flaunt theirpractical and theoretical know-how in the bid to qualifythrough to the next round, the Regional Finals.

TheDistrict Contests are one-day events organised by NZYFClubs. Whether it be through organising, competing, orcoming along as support, all members are encouraged to getbehind their local District Contest to be a part of NZYFslargest event.

The top contestants from each DistrictContest will progress through to the Regional Finals, wherethey will once again demonstrate the broad and variedskillset of a modern farmer. Seven Regional Finals will beheld between February and April 2023.

From here, thehighest scoring contestant wins the honour of representingtheir region at the coveted FMG Young Farmer of the YearGrand Final set to happen in Timaru in July 2023.

Theannual contest has been going for now 55 Seasons, with beeffarmer Tim Dangen becoming the latest FMG Young Farmer ofthe Year to join the long line ofchampions.

Were fantastic farmers, we know it,we just need to continue to tell the positive stories fromour industry.

Dangen is a member of the AucklandCity Young Farmers Club and came out on top at the Season 54FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final in Whangrei lastJuly, earning him hometown hero status in the NorthernRegion.

It was a great day, we had a great time andworked through a bunch of different modules, had our farmletthat we kept going back to, and then we closed it out withAgri-Sports at the end which was a highlight forme.

Dangen is keen to inspire young people toget amongst it and is complimentary of the Contestsplatform within New Zealands primarysector.

Its such good advocacy for theindustry... I love this competition to bits.

Weneed to be proud of what we do, were world-leadingfarmers, there are challenges out there, but solutions areavailable to all these challenges, we just need to make surewe continue to attract the right people towards the sector,and well carry on being world leaders like weare.

The FMGYoung Farmer of the Year Contest is trialling a newstructure this year in the Northern and Waikato/Bay ofPlenty Regions. These will be two-day events, with day oneresembling the traditional District Contest and day twoaligning more closely with a Regional Final.

The endgoal remains the same to find the regions best torepresent them as Grand Finalists, says NZYF ChiefExecutive, Lynda Coppersmith.

We know that FMGYoung Farmer of the Year is a long season normally and itputs a lot of pressure on our member volunteers to deliver alot of events.

Were trialling this to look atways that we can still find New Zealands best YoungFarmer, but in a way that is potentially morestreamlined.

The FMG Young Farmer of the YearContest is proudly supported by FMG, Ravensdown, WorkSafe,Environmental Protection Authority, Ministry for PrimaryIndustries, Honda, Lincoln University, Massey University,PTS Logistics, New Holland, andStihl.

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