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Ballance Farm Environment awards - Latest News [Page 11]

Competition Honours Eight More Supreme Winners

Friday, 4 May 2007, 10:21 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The Ballance Farm Environment Awards have concluded for another year, with eight more Supreme award winners crowned for their contribution to environmental sustainability. More >>

Farmers demonstrate commitment to sustainability

Thursday, 3 May 2007, 10:16 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The Northland farmers who won the region's Ballance Farm Environment Awards this year are "industry leaders in sustainable farming", and Ballance Agri-Nutrients Chief Executive Larry Bilodeau urges other farmers in the area to take the opportunity ... More >>

Flood Affected Farm Scoops Major Prize

Thursday, 3 May 2007, 9:55 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Being named Supreme winners in the Northland Ballance Farm Environment Awards was good news for a dairy farming couple badly affected by the Northland floods. Heavy flooding in late March left half of Evan and Sherleen Smeath’s Hukerenui farm under ... More >>

Family Farming Operation Announced Supreme Winner

Sunday, 15 April 2007, 2:13 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Good stock performance and a strong focus on farm productivity and sustainability earned the McAtamney family the Supreme title in this year’s Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards. More >>

Southland Ballance Farm Environment Award Winners

Thursday, 12 April 2007, 10:16 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Isla Bank dairy farmers David and Kay Dodunski are the Supreme winners of the 2007 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards. They received their award at a special ceremony on April 11. Along with the Supreme award they also took out the LIC Dairy ... More >>

Farmers demonstrate commitment to sustainability

Thursday, 5 April 2007, 2:16 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The Waikato farmers who won the region's Ballance Farm Environment Awards this year are "industry leaders in sustainable farming", and Ballance Agri-Nutrients Chief Executive Larry Bilodeau urges other farmers in the area to take the opportunity ... More >>

Supreme Farm Environment Award Winners

Friday, 30 March 2007, 10:10 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Achieving sustainability is a continuous learning process for David and Hilary Ward, winners of the Supreme award at the 2007 Ballance Farm Environment Awards for Canterbury. More >>

Farmers Stay Under Environmental Spotlight In 2007

Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 2:52 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

2007 will be another testing year for farmers faced with the challenge of lifting production while minimising the environmental effects of intensive agriculture, says the newly appointed chairman of the New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust. More >>

Entries For Environmental Awards Draw To A Close

Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 10:08 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Entries for the Ballance Farm Environment Awards have closed in some regions but farmers in the Horizons, Northland, Southland and Otago areas still have time to enter the prestigious event. More >>

Good spread of farmers for Canterbury awards

Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 3:18 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

A wide spread of farming types and geographic areas are represented by farmers entering this season’s Ballance Farm Environment Awards in Canterbury. Of the 19 farmers who have entered ten are livestock, three are mixed livestock and arable, four are ... More >>

Southland Farmers Urged To Enter Awards

Friday, 3 November 2006, 11:16 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Southland’s new judging coordinator for the Ballance Farm Environment Awards says farmers who enter the competition will find it a highly rewarding experience. More >>

Entries Roll In For Otago Farm Environment Awards

Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 10:39 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Early indications suggest it is going to be another big year for the Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards. BFEA regional coordinator Sue Clarke says she was even receiving entries before the awards officially opened on November 1. More >>

Warning to Farmers to Focus on Sustainability

Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:15 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The issue of environmental sustainability needs to be taken seriously if farmers want to avoid the prospect of environmentally related tariffs and trading barriers, said Peter Nation, chairman of the NZ Farm Environment Award Trust (NZFEAT). More >>

Farm Environment Trust Appoints New Chairman

Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:08 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Waikato dairy farmer Jim Cotman has been elected chairman of the New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust. More >>

Farm Environment Awards

Sunday, 27 August 2006, 1:57 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Entries for the Canterbury, Waikato and Northland regions open on September 1st and other regions will follow shortly. More >>

Top Farmers Lead By Example

Friday, 30 June 2006, 5:21 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The 2006 Ballance Farm Environment Award regional supreme award winners from around New Zealand meet in Rotorua on Friday (June 30) to share their learnings and experiences about good farming practice. More >>

Papatotara Farmers Win Supreme Award

Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 10:36 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The 2006 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Supreme Award has gone to Papatotara livestock farmers Graeme and Dorothy Dodd, announced at an awards function in Invercargill tonight. More >>

Westview Wins Supreme Award

Monday, 1 May 2006, 2:44 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Shane Carroll and Nicola Shadbolt have tonight been named the 2006 Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Award Supreme winners. More >>

Environment Champion Takes the Rudder

Friday, 28 April 2006, 1:30 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards

The New Zealand Farm Environment Trust’s newly appointed General Manager, David Natzke, has been an admirer of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards since they were conceived 15 years ago. More >>

Moerangi Station Wins Supreme Award

Friday, 7 April 2006, 11:09 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards

Moerangi Station, owned by Maori trust, the Puketapu 3A Incorporation, has been named Supreme Award Winner in the 2006 Ballance Farm Environment Awards announced in Hamilton on April 5. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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