Agriculture
If you love it, it's not work, says North West Young Farmer─── SABRINA DEAN 13:55 Fri, 22 Apr 2016
Licthenburg - The Agri North West Young Farmer of the Year says he was secretly hopeful of doing well in the competition but was still completely taken by surprise when he was announced as the winner.
OFM News’ agri editor, Sabrina Dean, caught up with the winner, John Griffiths, at the Young Farmer Conference in Lichtenburg and filed this report:
Griffiths has been farming his whole life and actually purchased his first tractor in primary school, with money he’d earned farming a plot of land his father allowed him to use.
He was announced as the provincial Young Farmer of the Year during a ceremony in Lichtenburg on Thursday night and says it is amazing to have his life’s work recognised.
“I was totally not expecting it – I was hoping for it but not expecting it. I am extremely excited and just feeling proud. I feel that I have accomplished what I have worked very hard for.”
Griffiths farms mostly with crops under irrigation, as well as a small component of exotic wildlife. He owns the farm Volspoed in Slachtkraal near the Koedoeskop area.
He is in love with what he does and says for this reason it doesn’t feel like he is actually working.
Meanwhile Gideon van Zyl, a cattle farmer from Vryburg, has been elected as the new Chairperson of the Agri North West Young Farmer Association. Van Zyl was previously vice-chair and is full of plans and ideas to work on upliftment of young farmers in the province going forward.
Ben Prinsloo was elected as the new vice-Chair.
Sabrina Dean/OFM News
Agri North West Young Farmer Conf:
Feeling proud: