About 50 young farmers got together for an across-the-region catch-up and some friendly competition in Whanganui.
The annual competition happened on December 8, with fencing, stock judging and clay target shooting at Kaimatira Rd and Fordell. It was for members of Young Farmer clubs in the Taranaki/Manawatū region. Winners will compete nationally in Christchurch in February.
The competition is traditional and at a more "grassroots" level than the regional final for the FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition. In 2019 that will also happen in Whanganui, on April 6.
"The whole point of the competitions is to just have a go. It's giving people opportunities to try things they have never done before," Marton Young Farmers' Club chairwoman Samantha Tennent said.
The fencing competition was won by Lachlan Fee, a Tangimoana dairy farmer, who was working with Sean Taylor, a dry stock farmer from Kimbolton. The stock judging was won by Eloise Campbell, from the Inglewood Young Farmers' Club.