Alpaca shearer, two students, and a medical graduate win ‘farming pentathlon’

Alex Druce
Updated April 4 2018 - 10:08am, first published 6:00am
A quartet of young aggies from Wagga Wagga has taken out the 2018 NSW Young Farmer Challenge at the Sydney Royal, running a gauntlet of farming theory, safety, and physical feats to smash the pentathlon-style event.
A quartet of young aggies from Wagga Wagga has taken out the 2018 NSW Young Farmer Challenge at the Sydney Royal, running a gauntlet of farming theory, safety, and physical feats to smash the pentathlon-style event.

WHAT do you get when you cross a professional alpaca shearer, ag science and veterinary students, and a horse-loving medical graduate?

Alex Druce

Alex Druce

Senior Journalist

Politics and rural issues journo in Sydney. Give me a yell at adruce@fairfaxmedia.com.au

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