Photo: Glenneis Kriel
The winners of Nampo’s Boerepatente (farmers’ patents) competition were recently announced.
Nico Jacobsz’s automatic sheep crush won the new agricultural machinery, implements and equipment category, while Rynhardt and Dolf Erasmus won the commercial category for their Anaconda borehole air pump.
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Bertus Goosen won two categories: the modified agricultural machinery, implements and equipment category for his floater valves, and the tool category for his high-pressure spanner.
Read our article about Goosen, a farmer from Botswana, here.
Gert van Tonder of Reitz in the Free State won the house and garden category with a rat and meerkat smoker, which uses old oil to smoke animals out of their holes, and the open division with his ‘old’ oil geyser that uses old engine oil to heat water within 15 minutes to 60°C.
Donald Brink, sales manager at Omnia and judge at the competition, told Farmer’s Weekly that the competition received four fewer entries than last year, but that the quality of the entries was generally better than those entered the year before.
Nevertheless, he admitted that choosing the winners was not difficult, as most of them stood out from the rest.
Brink said that in future, he would like to see schools and universities enter the Boerepatente competition.
“We have been receiving an increasing number of entries from school children at Nampo Cape, which is resulting in good competition between the schools in the province, and I would like to see that happening with schools and universities at Nampo Harvest Day in Bothaville.”
