Duncan knows he's on a winner In a word - "Stoked". Taurikura farm manager Duncan Bayne summed up winning his new Suzuki off-road motorbike in a competition for Agriculture ITO trainees who encouraged new farm employees to enrol in a qualification programme. It wasn't hard to get Duncan smiling for the camera as he and his wife Tina Cachemaille-Bayne, and their children Angel (5) and Noah (2) came into town to pick up Duncan's gleaming new prize, a Suzuki DR-Z250, worth $8,495. It was Tina who prompted Duncan into entering the details of Shaun Smart, the new farm assistant on Murray Jagger's Taurikura dairy farm. "But I always knew I was going to win," Duncan laughed. At the time he entered he was studying for his National Certificate in Production Management (Dairy), with help on and off the farm from Agriculture ITO training adviser Jewel Matheson. "On the last day of class, I told Jewel: Make sure you get that bike ready for me!" It's not the first competition Duncan's won recently, though luck had a lot less to do with the other one. He was the top Dairy Trainee of the Year for the Northland region last year. Mike Maunder, of Maunder Suzuki, Whangarei, said he was pleased the prize had gone to a Whangarei farm. A farm owner himself now, after beginning his working life as a tanker driver, he also has a manager undergoing Agriculture ITO study in production management. Mike's a keen motorbike racer, and was quickly roped in by Tina to help set the trailbike course for the upcoming school fundraiser as Duncan wheeled the DR-Z250 out of the shop. "It's neat that there's this connection between the two, and that Mike's a farmer himself," Jewel said. "It makes it much more of a community thing." And for the last word, back to Duncan: "Thanks very much, guys. Are you running another competition this year?"