July 10, 2024 • 5 mins
We have made it to the 56th Grand final of The Young Farmer of the Year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The cricket field to the cow shed. It's the Country
Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport. We're talking
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year right now in
the Country Sport Breakfast. This is huge Season fifty six
of the Grand Final. It gets underway and a read
about half an hour out of the Whitecatto and over
the course of the next three days, seven Grand finalists
(00:20):
from around the country, we'll race against the clock and
a series of high pressure challenges designed to test them
quick thinking, practical know how and farming skills. Joining us
on the show this morning CEO of a New Zealand
Young Farmer Linda Kova Smith Morningland app Good morning season
fifty six. What a journey the Young Farmer has been on,
hasn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Certainly has. It's grown and evolved and it keeps on
evolving every year.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
All right, So let's have a look at what is
going to happen starting today and running right through to
the Grand Final on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Sure, so today is what we call our technical day,
and technical day has always sort of been a low
key thing that has been behind closed doors, generally not
open to the public. That is something we're looking to
change because it is such a significant part of their
score for the whole three days, that's probably around about
fifty percent of the total score. And it's really it's
(01:16):
a really exciting and interesting day where they present an
innovation project, they do an exam, they do an HR challenge,
they do all sorts of really call stuff that just
kind of I think demonstrates just how well rounded you
need to be to be a farmer and your Zealand
these days.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And a lot of the seven finalists they come from
all walks of life when it comes to farming, don't they.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They sure do. I mean we generally, I think last
year we had all actually all on farm farmers. But
most of the time we'll generally have a real mix
of world professionals. We might even have a student authorn there,
graduates excuse me, and and proper farmers as well throughout
(01:57):
there doing the doing the mahi every day.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
All right, so technical day to day, and then you
throw it open to the public on Friday. What happens
on Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So Friday is a practical day, and so that we
have all three levels of the competition running on Friday.
So Agricids fmergy, juniors and seniors and the young farmers
all doing their modules their farmlets. That's the day where
everything's is on display. We have the Agrisports, which is
(02:26):
the hit the heads for anyone that was in Timorroy
last year. We had seven big new Holand tractors racing
down a big paddock. That's the visual stuff that's really
entertaining to watch.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So that's open to the spectators. Whereabouts is it.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's at the showgrounds at Cordland's so just out the
front of Globox Arena the grassy areas there, So.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's that takes care of day too. And then the
big one, I guess is the Saturday. So I know
that you've got the final sort of quiz on the Saturday.
What else happens then, So that's a.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Central The guts of it is the evening showing about
seven hundred people under that that's what we will be
doing here this year for the first time is presenting
our club awards as well, so normally we don't do
that at this inf it's a really great opportunity to
hear what they're doing in Clubland as well as quiz.
As you mentioned with Tarradar running that and then we
(03:16):
present Emma Pool this year will hand over the trophy
and the close knowledge. At the end of the night
there's a big party.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, I bet there is the relief for all of
those people competing. So what prize wise, what are they
competing for? How much is it? There is the prize worth.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's a round about about ninety two hundred k worth
of prize value. So there's a whole mix of some
cash prizes, there's some product, there's track I think New
Holdan's stooke doing as a we tractor if that's what
they want to have. So it's getting close to one
hundred grandsworth of prizes and then there's still quite a
lot of prizes also for the juniors and their aggregates.
(03:55):
They're very the sponsors are very generous with their prizes
for them as well.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, this is kind of a new innovation for the
FMG Young Farmer competition with the junior Young Farmers and
also the agri kids. So what are they involved within
the competition?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So the juniors pretty much do a mini Young Farmer
of the Year and you know, they take it so seriously.
They I was on a plane this morning coming up
from christ Church with a bunch We had a couple
of our Grand finalists and a bunch of juniors all
on the plane with your parents swatting doing their study
while they're on the plane for the Friday night for
(04:29):
base off and for their modules, so you know, they
take it pretty seriously and their exam. They have an
exam as well. Oh wow, so that's pretty involved. That
Agri Kids is a little bit more fun but still
taken very very seriously. That's more your primary school age.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And that's about sixty three of those Agri Kids, right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, so teams of three, three teams of three
from all around the country, so it's pretty full on.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, Saturday night will know who the winner is going
to be. So we Linda, we wish you all the
very very best of like running this amazing event. Well done,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
May the sun continue to shine. That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Absolutely, Linda Copsmith, CEO of FMG Young Farmer And on
the show on Monday, we hopefully will catch up with
the winner of the fifty sixth Grand Final.
The cricket field to the cow shed. It's the Country
Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport. We're talking
the FMG Young Farmer of the Year right now in
the Country Sport Breakfast. This is huge Season fifty six
of the Grand Final. It gets underway and a read
about half an hour out of the Whitecatto and over
the course of the next three days, seven Grand finalists
(00:20):
from around the country, we'll race against the clock and
a series of high pressure challenges designed to test them
quick thinking, practical know how and farming skills. Joining us
on the show this morning CEO of a New Zealand
Young Farmer Linda Kova Smith Morningland app Good morning season
fifty six. What a journey the Young Farmer has been on,
hasn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Certainly has. It's grown and evolved and it keeps on
evolving every year.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
All right, So let's have a look at what is
going to happen starting today and running right through to
the Grand Final on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Sure, so today is what we call our technical day,
and technical day has always sort of been a low
key thing that has been behind closed doors, generally not
open to the public. That is something we're looking to
change because it is such a significant part of their
score for the whole three days, that's probably around about
fifty percent of the total score. And it's really it's
(01:16):
a really exciting and interesting day where they present an
innovation project, they do an exam, they do an HR challenge,
they do all sorts of really call stuff that just
kind of I think demonstrates just how well rounded you
need to be to be a farmer and your Zealand
these days.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And a lot of the seven finalists they come from
all walks of life when it comes to farming, don't they.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They sure do. I mean we generally, I think last
year we had all actually all on farm farmers. But
most of the time we'll generally have a real mix
of world professionals. We might even have a student authorn there,
graduates excuse me, and and proper farmers as well throughout
(01:57):
there doing the doing the mahi every day.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
All right, so technical day to day, and then you
throw it open to the public on Friday. What happens
on Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So Friday is a practical day, and so that we
have all three levels of the competition running on Friday.
So Agricids fmergy, juniors and seniors and the young farmers
all doing their modules their farmlets. That's the day where
everything's is on display. We have the Agrisports, which is
(02:26):
the hit the heads for anyone that was in Timorroy
last year. We had seven big new Holand tractors racing
down a big paddock. That's the visual stuff that's really
entertaining to watch.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So that's open to the spectators. Whereabouts is it.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's at the showgrounds at Cordland's so just out the
front of Globox Arena the grassy areas there, So.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's that takes care of day too. And then the
big one, I guess is the Saturday. So I know
that you've got the final sort of quiz on the Saturday.
What else happens then, So that's a.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Central The guts of it is the evening showing about
seven hundred people under that that's what we will be
doing here this year for the first time is presenting
our club awards as well, so normally we don't do
that at this inf it's a really great opportunity to
hear what they're doing in Clubland as well as quiz.
As you mentioned with Tarradar running that and then we
(03:16):
present Emma Pool this year will hand over the trophy
and the close knowledge. At the end of the night
there's a big party.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, I bet there is the relief for all of
those people competing. So what prize wise, what are they
competing for? How much is it? There is the prize worth.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's a round about about ninety two hundred k worth
of prize value. So there's a whole mix of some
cash prizes, there's some product, there's track I think New
Holdan's stooke doing as a we tractor if that's what
they want to have. So it's getting close to one
hundred grandsworth of prizes and then there's still quite a
lot of prizes also for the juniors and their aggregates.
(03:55):
They're very the sponsors are very generous with their prizes
for them as well.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, this is kind of a new innovation for the
FMG Young Farmer competition with the junior Young Farmers and
also the agri kids. So what are they involved within
the competition?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So the juniors pretty much do a mini Young Farmer
of the Year and you know, they take it so seriously.
They I was on a plane this morning coming up
from christ Church with a bunch We had a couple
of our Grand finalists and a bunch of juniors all
on the plane with your parents swatting doing their study
while they're on the plane for the Friday night for
(04:29):
base off and for their modules, so you know, they
take it pretty seriously and their exam. They have an
exam as well. Oh wow, so that's pretty involved. That
Agri Kids is a little bit more fun but still
taken very very seriously. That's more your primary school age.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And that's about sixty three of those Agri Kids, right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, so teams of three, three teams of three
from all around the country, so it's pretty full on.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, Saturday night will know who the winner is going
to be. So we Linda, we wish you all the
very very best of like running this amazing event. Well done,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
May the sun continue to shine. That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Absolutely, Linda Copsmith, CEO of FMG Young Farmer And on
the show on Monday, we hopefully will catch up with
the winner of the fifty sixth Grand Final.
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