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RURAL LIFE 30 North Canterbury News, July 8, 2021 Oxford’sfuture farmers put to the test By DAVID HILL ShaugnKilgour was thrilled to be named this year’sOxfordFuture Farmer competition winner. The annualOxford Area School competition, which is similartothe Young Farmer of the Year contest, returned on June 22 for the sixth edition of the event afteritwas acasualtyof Covid19 last year. Shaugndidn’thave to look far for inspirationashis older brotherJeremy is apast winner and competed in this year’s Young Farmer of the Year Tasman regional final. The nine finalistswere put through their pacesintractor driving, building a beehive, identifying differentseeds, first aid, setting up irrigation,velvet grading, an ‘‘amazing race’’ and in the evening gave aspeech and competed in aquiz in the Oxford Town Hall. Shaugnlives on apig farmand is aiming to be an agricultural engineer. The year 13 pupiland head studentis hopingtofind an engineering apprenticeship or work for an agricultural contractorwhen he finishes schoolatthe end of this year. ‘‘I’vealways beenkeen on farm machinery. We’ve got two two frontend loaders at homeand Istudied agriculture in year 11 and we went on quite afew sheep and deer farms and we got experience from that withdrenching and everything else relatedtofarming.’’ In the lead up to the final Shaugn says he watched afew videos to improvehis general knowledge and to get some tips on what foods animalseat, differentseeds and the climate. Actingprincipal Sharyn Varcoe says the competition is open to year 11 to 13 students at the schooland is keenly contested, with qualifying sessions held in the leaduptothe big day to choose the Shaugn Kilgour finalists. ‘‘We are arural school so farming is a huge part of our community.Itgoes back to our schoolvision, whichisto‘grow together, learn together, shinetogether’ and this competition embodies all of those things.’’ The competition is builtaround community support, with localfarmer AndrewStokesworking alongside the school’s head of science, Joseph Burston, to run the competition. ‘‘We have local businesseswho come along and providestaff, run sections and donateprizes,’’ Ms Varcoe says. ‘‘It’savery authentic, future focused competition and when we get comments from localcontractorsthat ‘the quality is getting better and better every year’ and that ‘these competitors are goingtobe running theirown farms one day’, we are very proud of them. ‘‘It was ahotly contested competition and very close.’’ Each of the finalists wereasked to make Busy in their work ... Building abeehive was one of the challenges in the Oxford Future Farmer competition. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED aspeech on ‘‘wherecan agriculturetake me?’’ While Shaugn talkedabout his dream of being an agricultural engineer, others spoke about agricultural contracting, veterinary science, artificial insemination and bee keeping, Ms Varcoe says. ‘‘It was great to see the variety that agriculture encompasses represented in the speeches and what it means for the community and to our country as a whole.’’ Year 13 pupil Cameron Rowe placed second, whileyear 11 pupil Hillary Cooperwas third. Elise Whitwell (year 11) won the prize for besteffort on the day. While the firstsix winnershave been boys, Ms Varcoesays judgingbythis year’s final it may not be longbeforethe girls finally come out on top. Tractor skills ... Finalists were tested on their tractor skills. LOVED BY GENERATIONS Published more frequently and giving you better value for money than any other rugby read SUBSCRIBE FROM AS LITTLE AS $20 rugbynews.co.nz 0800 77 77 10 ALSO AVAILABLE ATALL GOOD BOOKSTORES AND SUPERMARKETS
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