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Speaker 1: Rowena Duncan of the countries with us right now, Hey

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Speaker 1: rot hey hever. So the grand finals knocked off for

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Speaker 1: the Young Farmers of the Year and what are you picking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I don't know which of the seven regional

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Speaker 2: finalists are coming into this as a hot favorite. I've

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Speaker 2: picked it before in previous years. This year I'm not

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Speaker 2: prepared to put my name behind any of their names.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, a great bunch of finalists but yet got

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Speaker 2: underway in Claudlin's today. The seven main finalists in the

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Speaker 2: FMG Young Farmer of the Year. They had there the

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Speaker 2: paper day, you know, when they go through all the

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Speaker 2: technical kind of side of things. They'll have their practical

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Speaker 2: day tomorrow. But we had some of the other contestants

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Speaker 2: from Young Farmers clubs around the country. They got underway today.

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Speaker 2: They were doing things like claybird shooting. It just seems

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Speaker 2: like a bunch of fun there. We've also got kids

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Speaker 2: in the Agritines underway as well. And then it all

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Speaker 2: culminates on Saturday evening from six o'clock, so they're going

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Speaker 2: head to head with the All Blacks Heather In terms

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Speaker 2: of entertainment that evening, you can follow along on the

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Speaker 2: live stream, which I'll be doing from home as well.

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Speaker 2: But it's just great that it's come around again. We've

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Speaker 2: had a wonderful twelve months with Emma Pool as the

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Speaker 2: first female winner of the Young Farmer Contest in over

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Speaker 2: fifty years. I think we're in the fifty sixty year

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Speaker 2: this year of the contest, and she's done a magnificent

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Speaker 2: job representing farming over the past twelve months. She'll be

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Speaker 2: sad to hand over that cloak of knowledge on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet Hey, how's it going with that chap

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Speaker 1: who's rowing across the cookstraight?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Isn't he amazing? Seventy six year old Jamie Strang

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Speaker 2: managed to make it across cook Strait made it across

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Speaker 2: there in a quicker time than a lot of people thought.

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Speaker 2: He has now raised nearly three and a half grand

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Speaker 2: for Farmstrong. And I have checked, Heather, because I know

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Speaker 2: Jamie McKay, host of the Country, said he'd give Jamie

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Speaker 2: Strang one hundred dollars as he made it across. I've

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Speaker 2: checked on the give a Little page. His name is

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Speaker 2: there with one hundred dollars Heather, So we can actually,

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Speaker 2: like not try and head him up about that, But

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Speaker 2: what a great achievement though it's seventy six to be

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Speaker 2: able to row across cook straight. I'm just in awe

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Speaker 2: of him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, and he managed to do it without autopilot

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Speaker 1: and just randomly turning right. Good on you, Rowan Rowena

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Speaker 1: Duncan of the Country.

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