Duncan Mudford was preparing for his latest job as an AGC Training agricultural tutor way before he even realised.
Born, bred and raised on the family farm just south of Rongotea in the small settlement of Taikorea, Mudford learned the basics of varying farming practices as the landscape changed from horse farming to pigs and then finally to dairy.
"The farm has been in the family ownership for 120 years," Mudford said.
"After leaving the family farm I went building before returning to the land on a Landcorp block.
"I then moved to manage a farm for the Hocking family north of Feilding at Colyton.