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We meet the new Free State Young Farmer of the Year

by Staff Reporter
16th April 2021
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Food For Mzansi audience and engagement editor Dawn Noemdoe chats to the winner of Free State Agriculture’s Young Farmer of the Year competition, Doug Osler.

Find out what he plans to do next, how his family gave him the support he needed to win the competition and also if he’s a two-toned, veldskoene or skinny jeans kinda young farmer.

ALSO READ: Free State, meet your new Young Farmer of the Year

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