Matamata dairy farmers Rod and Sandra McKinnon, Oakstone Hinuera Ltd, have won the Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Their win was announced on Thursday night (April 5) at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre at Lake Karapiro. The McKinnons will host a field day at the Taotaoroa Road property on Thursday May 10 from 10am. Rod […]
Industry: Dairy
2018 Waikato Regional Supreme Winners
2018 East Coast Regional Supreme Winners
Parkhill Dairy Farm at Ashley Clinton has won the East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards -entered by owner Andrea Barry and manager Craig Pennell. The win was announced at an awards dinner at the Napier Conference Centre on Wednesday night (March 28). They will host a field day in April. Parkhill was one of the […]
2018 Taranaki Regional Supreme Winners
Manaia dairy farmers showing sustainable and appreciable biodiversity and conservation values have won the Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Grant, Dinny and Leedom Gibbs from the Gibbs G Trust were announced supreme winners at the region’s awards dinner at the Devon Hotel in New Plymouth on Thursday night (March 22). They will host a field […]
2018 Horizons Regional Supreme Winners
Sustainability equals longevity and balance across the physical environment, business and people, say Dannevirke dairy farmers Andrew Hardie and Helen Long. The couple won the Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Awards on Thursday night (15 March) at the Silks Lounge at the Awapuni Racecourse, Palmerston North. Andrew and Helen have farmed Te Maunga since 1999 and […]
2018 Canterbury Regional Supreme Winners
Medbury Farm will host a field day in mid-June at the Dalzells Road North property. The Medbury Farm board members had completed a governance course before the tragic sudden death of founding farm partner Eric Jacomb (husband of Janet Girvan) in January 2016. As resident equity partners, the Hislops said they wanted to enter the […]
2017 Taranaki Regional Supreme Winners
Ohangai sheep, beef and dairy farmers Peter and Nicola Carver utilise their range of flat to steep South Taranaki country by combining both dairy and dry stock farming on Holmleigh, their 515ha family property at Ohangai, east of Hawera. Operating with obvious consideration for the long-term viability of both their farming business and the environment, […]
2017 Auckland Regional Supreme Winners
Fourth generation dairy farmers Scott and Sue Narbey have won the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards. They have a 155ha milking platform for their 410-cow System 5 operation on Mangakura Road, just south of Helensville, and the awards judges commented the couple’s family farming operation was intensive but still felt “simple and logical”.
2017 Bay of Plenty Regional Supreme Winners
Opotiki dairy farmers Jared and Sue Watson have won the Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Sue and Jared have been 50:50 sharemilkers since 2002 now milking 282 cows once a day on a 120ha platform in the Waiotahe Valley. The Awards judges said the couple work to each other’s strengths with Jared’s on-farm […]
2016 Waikato Regional Supreme Winners
Puahue dairy farmers John Hayward and Susan O’Regan are Supreme winners of the 2016 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards. This season, Judge Valley Dairies is milking 485 cows on a 140ha milking platform, targeting production of 235,000kgMS. Heifers and dry cows are grazed on the balance of the farm, which is also home to protected […]
2016 Taranaki Regional Supreme Winners
A well-managed dairy and forestry farm owned by Parininihi ki Waitotara (PKW) is the Supreme winner of the 2016 Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards. PKW is a Taranaki-based Maori Incorporation that owns 20,000ha of dairy land and a range of other business interests, including crayfishing, forestry and commercial property. Situated east of Hawera, PKW’s No.2 […]
2016 Canterbury Regional Supreme Winners
Geraldine sharemilkers Joe and Suz Wyborn are the Supreme winners of the 2016 Cantebrury Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Descriibed by BFEA judges as representing ‘everything that is positive about the New Zealand dairy industry”, Joe and Suz have been 50:50 sharemilking on Grantlea Dairy No.1 – a 253ha irrigated property east of Geraldine – since […]
2016 Horizons Regional Supreme Winners
Nukumaru dairy farm owners David and Adrienne Hopkins and sharemilkers Ben and Belinda Price are Supreme winners of the 2016 Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Ben and Belinda are in their second season 50:50 sharemilking 680 cows on David and Adrienne’s 248ha property south of Waverley.
2015 Northland Regional Supreme Winner
Pakotai dairy farmers Rachel and Greig Alexander are the Supreme winners of the 2015 Northland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA). Their business, Waikopani Holdings Ltd, farms a total of 486ha on two farms (one dairy and the other beef) in the Mangakahia River Valley, about 50km northwest of Whangarei.
2015 Southland Regional Supreme Winners
Te Anau sheep and dairy farmers Robert and Anna Kempthorne run Mavora Farms Ltd, a successful self-contained dairy and sheep operation spread over 613ha in the Te Anau Basin. In partnership with Robert’s parents Bruce and Linda, the Kempthornes converted the family drystock farm and a neighbouring property in 2007, creating the first dairy farm […]
2015 Greater Wellington Regional Supreme Winners
Wairarapa dairy farmers Leo and Rebecca Vollebregt run a 580-cow operation south east of Featherston,which has focused on creating “an attractive, productive and profitable farm that everyone enjoys working on”. The Vollebregts farm a total of 289ha, including the 154ha effective home block which is divided by Pahautea Road and partially bounded by the Ruamahanga […]
2015 Taranaki Regional Supreme Winners
Eltham dairy farmers Mark and Jacqui Muller and their manager Conrad Maeke are the Supreme Winners of the 2015 Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards The Muller’s business, Gardiner Partnership, is based on 212ha of family land west of Eltham in the Mangatoki district. The operation milks up to 618 cows on a 167ha milking platform, […]
2014 Northland Regional Supreme Winners
Very sustainable dairy farming with a business that is productive and profitable while having minimal impact on the environment has won the Supreme Award for Roger and Jane Hutchings in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards for Northland in 2014.
2014 Southland Regional Supreme Winners
Andrew and HeatherTripp embrace the mantle of stewardship that comes with being in charge of this 17,000 su historic property at Kaiwera, south east of Gore. “We see ourselves very much as stewards here, and that guides every decision we make,” says Andrew, whose grandfather Charlie Tripp bought the property in 1924. Andrew and Heather […]
2014 Taranaki Regional Supreme Winners
This 1150-cow year round milking operation with the Penwarden Partnership and Faull Farms, on 371ha at Tikorangi just inland from Waitara,was described by the award judges as “a strongexample of dairying and what can be achieved”. Currently the farm comprises of a 282ha milking platform and four nearby run-offs totalling 89ha. Contour is flat, with […]
2014 Canterbury Regional Supreme Winners
Mark Slee’s parents Syd and Morrell converted the original 365ha family sheep farm south of Ashburton in 1987. Mark and Devon began managing this in 1991 and have since grown the business to 2640 cows, buying the family farm, two neighbouring properties and a run-off in the process. Operating efficiently and managing resources carefully are […]