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Farmer Olympics in Vermont

With the world’s attention focused on the Olympic Games in Brazil, a decidedly different type of competition was held in a small corner of New England, as farmers took to the field for the second annual Farmer Olympics in Vershire, Vt. After taking part in warm-up events that included a hay bale toss, the crowd gathered for an opening ceremony where a quartet performed the Olympic theme song on kazoo. When the competition began, 60 farmers sprinted up a hill, empty bins and shovels in hand, for the manure relay. The event was sponsored by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. In the end it was a team from Cedar Circle Farm in East Stepford who took the gold.

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Farmer Olympics in Vermont

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  1. Rancher Olympics in Vermont

  2. Niko Horster of Shire Beef holds the light amid the opening service of the second yearly Farmer Olympics held at Broad Acres Farm in Vershire, Vt., on Aug. 9. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  3. Gillian Wyman of Root 5 Farm in Fairlee, Vt. holds their group's mascot, "Broc," as she extends before the begin of the Farmer Olympics. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  4. Farmers get bunches of roughage as they get ready for the warm-up feed safeguard hurl. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  5. Women use kazoos to murmur the Olympic topic amid the opening function. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  6. Judge Sam Fuller, Services Director of Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (focus), gets out the champ of the fertilizer transfer. Agriculturists dashed to fill four containers brimming with excrement and after that ran them over the field to dump the receptacles into the compost spreader at the base of the slope. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  7. Merle Russell of Humble Hill Farm hurls a safeguard of roughage as he partakes in the occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  8. Farmers scramble to load excrement into containers amid the fertilizer hand-off occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  9. Judge Sam Fuller counts the outcomes in the second yearly Farmer Olympics at Broad Acres Farm. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  10. Farmers pushed 700-pound bunches of roughage around a course amid the wrapped bundle push occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  11. Gregory Wilson of Opera House Farm hurls a bunch of roughage as he participates in the Farmer Olympics. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  12. Children jump crosswise over bunches of feed as the ranchers who were contending dealt with word issues at Broad Acres Farm. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  13. Farmers raise their hands before the begin of the seeding transfer. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  14. Root 5 rancher Seth Bent (right) slips and falls as he and kindred Root 5 agriculturist Ben Blais race to make a 20-by-20-foot wall amid the single strand wall setting occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  15. A judge from the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont ensures that the wall that Root 5 Farm set up is knee high amid the single strand wall setting occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  16. Farmers sit in the field as they anticipate the word issue bit of the Farmer Olympics. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  17. Following the declaration of the victors, the national hymn was sung at the finish of the occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  18. Elisa Walker (focus) and her kindred ranchers from Springtail Farm sit in the focal point of a wall setting in the wake of hustling to make a 20-by-20-foot wall amid the single strand wall setting occasion. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  19. Before the begin of the main occasion, agriculturists moved a chicken coop that had been hurled off of its trailer amid a wind storm at Broad Acres Farm in Vershire, Vt. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  20. Farmers keep running up a slope towards the fertilizer heap amid the excrement hand-off occasion. They dashed to fill four containers brimming with excrement and after that ran them over the field to dump the receptacles into the compost spreader at the base of the slope. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  21. Gillian Wyman of Root 5 Farm held overhead their group's mascot, "Broc." (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  22. Members of Cedar Circle Farm praised winning the seeding transfer. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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