Grand Final 2025

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Emma Poole

REPRESENTING THE Waikato BAY OF PLENTY REGION
Age: 28
Occupation: Dairy farmer
Club: Te Kawa West Young Farmers
 
Emma is based in Pirongia on a dairy farm with her husband Chris and one-year-old son Beau.
 
Emma and Chris look after a 720-cow farm, splitting calving between autumn and spring and rearing an additional 1,000 calves alongside milking. Emma loves to use her vetting skills when she can and does a bit of embryo work for breeding too.
 
Emma, one of five siblings, was first introduced to farming on her parents’ Muriwai dairy farm. She and her brother Tim would kick around the paddocks and wool sheds, lending a hand to their parents. 
One thing Emma wants to work on for the Grand Final is her fitness. She says she wants to prove a woman can do the 'men’s jobs' and more!

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My Grand Final Timetable

Thursday 6 July

7:15AM - 2:00PM: Technical Day (closed event)
3:00PM - 4:30PM: Opening Parade & Ceremony (starts at Speight's Ale House, ceremony at Caroline Bay Soundshell)

Friday 7 July

Practical Day, Winchester A&P Showgrounds

7:30AM - 8:30AM: Farmlet

8:30AM: Module 1
9:00AM: Module 2
9:30AM: Module 3
10:00AM: Module 4
10:30AM: Head-to-Head
11:00AM: Module 5
11:30AM: Module 6
12:00PM: Module 7

12:30PM: Lunch

1:00PM - 2:00PM: Farmlet 
2:00PM: AgriSports
3:00PM: Event finishes

Friday Junior Awards & Speeches, Timaru Girls' High School
7:30-9:00PM: Speech


Saturday 8 July
5:00PM-Late: Grand Final Evening Show

Watch: Get to know Emma

"If I do win, I want it to be a good, strong, fair contest, and I want people to look at it and think, ‘That was a really fair display of farming out there'”

"We're all role models, everyone who's involved in the sector has the opportunity to inspire others towards the sector and be a role model. Farmers are a bloody awesome group of people."

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