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CLARKES Hill farmer Caitlin Grieve has won a national competition to find the top young grain judge at the Royal Adelaide Show.

The 25-year-old was among state winners who travelled to Adelaide for the event, run by Agricultural Shows Australia and sponsored by Lawson Grains.

“I have just won the national final young judges grain section, and oh my goodness it means such a great deal,” Ms Grieve said.

“I chose to judge wheat and I didn’t think I had that much to say but it all just came to me.”

Ms Grieve, a sixth-generation farmer whose family has been working the land since the 1800s, studied agricultural science at Lincoln University in New Zealand on a leadership scholarship.

She gained hands-on experience on a sheep and beef station in Hawkes Bay.

“In 10 ye

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