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To win or overcome
IN THIS EDITION THE
OVERARCHING THEME
OF ARTICLES SEEMS
TO BE TO WIN OR TO
OVERCOME. TAKE FOR
INSTANCE NAMPO HAR-
VEST DAY’S 51 st YEAR OF
EXISTENCE AND WITH
IT THE OVERWHELMING
SUCCESS OF NATION
IN CONVERSATION’S 5 th
VISIT TO THE LEADING
AGRICULTURAL SHOW.
T
his led me to the word
win. Win means to be
successful or victorious in a
contest. After I delved deeper
into the origin of the word win,
I came across a section which
describes the Old English word
winnan as a predecessor to win.
Winnan means to struggle,
strive or fight. And what better
way to describe it, because
that is exactly what precedes
the months or years before the
overwhelming feeling of victory.
word win in it, like to win by a
nose, win hands down, win on
points, win one's spurs, win out,
win over and you win some, you
lose some, to name but a few.
Keeping with the theme we also
focus on the new 2017 winners
of the Young Farmer of the Year
competitions, with Johan van
Huyssteen being the Free State
winner and Ro’an van Tonder
the winner from Northwest.
We also feature an article by
Francois Strydom on how to be
a winning agricultural company.
We are expecting record yields
for the current financial year,
which is another victory in itself
and, with Senwes funding the
Smart Agri Risk Management
Desk, it is yet another win for
farmers, as this function will
investigate the increase of risk
in the agricultural sector over
particularly the last decade.
Enjoy these articles and many
more in this edition as we
are overcome by the sense of
winning, especially after the
past few years of drought.
Aubrey Kruger
EDITOR
The first recorded history of win
as in victorious, was in 1300,
while the first recorded history of
winning as in the modern sense
of victory, came only in about
186