A Pirongia Dairy Farmer Has Been Crowned The Waikato Bay Of Plenty FMG Young Farmer Of The Year

A Pirongia dairy farmer has been crowned the Waikato Bay of Plenty FMG Young Farmer of the Year. 28 year old Emma Poole will be heading to the Grand Final in Timaru in July. She took the title off her husband, Chris Poole, who represented Waikato last year in the Grand Final and to round out the family ties Emma’s brother, Tim Dangen took is last years Young Farmer of the Year title holder. Emma was a Grand Finalist in 2019 and reckons she has unfinished business this year. The two-day event is the first of its kind in the contest’s 55-year history. Usually, district contests are held months in advance of the regional final, but the new format aims to streamline the process by running a district final on day one and then a regional final on day two. Emma Poole spent Friday battling it out against 16 other Young Farmers to become one of eight in the regional final on Saturday. And at the end of it all she was crowned the overall winner.