The school’s top six shearers and top six wool handlers took to the school’s assembly hall stage, with Renee Biggs, 17, claiming the shearing title and Tre Ratana-Sciascia, 15, the wool handling honours.
Competition organiser and Feilding High School agriculture teacher Kain Nixon says a preliminary round was held in late July in the woolshed on the school’s Manawanui farm to find the semi-finalists in the inter-house competition.
The trophy the shearers were competing for was last awarded in 1991.
Wool handling was not part of the event at that time, but was added to this year’s event to recognise that wool handlers are just as important in the shed as shearers.
Nixon says the decision was made to resurrect the competition both to lift the profile of shearing and wool handling in the school and to recognise the passion of some of its students for the wool industry.
The sheep used in the competition were sourced from Manawanui.
It’s planned that the competition will be held in future years.
Prizes included Farmlands and PGG Wrightson vouchers, and Lister and Heiniger products, while the two winners won places in Elite Wool Industry Training courses valued at $630 each.The school’s top six shearers and top six wool handlers took to the school’s assembly hall stage, with Renee Biggs, 17, claiming the shearing title and Tre Ratana-Sciascia, 15, the wool handling honours.
Competition organiser and Feilding High School agriculture teacher Kain Nixon says a preliminary round was held in late July in the woolshed on the school’s Manawanui farm to find the semi-finalists in the inter-house competition.
The trophy the shearers were competing for was last awarded in 1991.
Wool handling was not part of the event at that time, but was added to this year’s event to recognise that wool handlers are just as important in the shed as shearers.
Nixon says the decision was made to resurrect the competition both to lift the profile of shearing and wool handling in the school and to recognise the passion of some of its students for the wool industry.
The sheep used in the competition were sourced from Manawanui.
It’s planned that the competition will be held in future years.
Prizes included Farmlands and PGG Wrightson vouchers, and Lister and Heiniger products, while the two winners won places in Elite Wool Industry Training courses valued at $630 each.
