Farm kids are encouraged to get creative and learn about their farm for an art competition held by Grain Growers as part of it’s 60 year anniversary.
The art competition is open until September, for farm kids aged 5 to 18, with great prizes up for grabs for the winners.
GrainGrowers Chairman, John Eastburn said this is a great activity for the school holidays giving kids a chance to learn more about their family’s history while also being an opportunity to express their creative talent.
Each age group has its own category with prizes including a drone, a goPro and an iPad.
“There are many talented farm kids who are very creative and keen at drawing, writing, taking photos and filming videos, and this competition gives them the opportunity to show what they could do,” Mr Eastburn said.
“The very youngest might like to do a drawing of Grandpa perched up on a stack of wheat sacks while the older teenagers might like to show a video of their family talking about historic photos of early grain farming against a backdrop of the massive grain storage silos on farm today.
“It doesn’t matter if the children don’t live on a grain farm themselves,” he said.
“They might have relatives who are running the farm and who they might visit on the holidays from the city.”
Mr Eastburn said it was also a great chance for kids to learn how things have changed through the generations.
“Grandpa may have had to fill and stack wheat bags himself, and he may have had horses which pulled a plough across the paddock or an early tractor with one of the first winnowing machines behind it,” he said.
“Their Mum and Dads or Aunts and Uncles today may have big machines which autosteer across the paddock, with a computer onboard to show which areas need more fertiliser, and a big truck to pick up the grain, while a drone shows a birds-eye view of progress on the seeding.
“When they grow up and become grain farmers – and we hope they do- they may have robots on the farm that never stop and don’t need anyone to drive them at all!”
Entries will be featured on the Grain Growers website, with voting through social media to be undertaken and artwork to be put on display at the Grain Growers 60th Anniversary dinner in Dubbo on 17 October where the winners will be announced.
Entries close on 17 September 2018.
