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Eight More Champions Lauded At Environment Awards
Monday, 4 May 2009, 11:02 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Organisers of the 2009 Ballance Farm Environment Awards are thrilled with the calibre of Supreme winners selected in this year's competition. Held in eight regions, the 2009 awards have drawn to a close following the final regional awards ceremony in ... More >>
Pukeokahu Couple Scores Top Farm Award
Saturday, 25 April 2009, 1:15 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Pukeokahu farmers Andy and Claire Law are the Supreme winners of the 2009 Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Awards. More >>
Coastal Farmers Win Supreme Environment Award
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 10:14 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Omamari beef farmers Peter and Pam Kelly have taken out the Supreme award in the 2009 Northland Ballance Farm Environment Awards. They also picked up the NZ Farm Environment Award Trust Habitat Improvement Award at the awards presentation held ... More >>
Stirling Dairy Farmers Claim Top Award
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 12:13 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Stirling dairy farmers Stephen and Rhonda Korteweg are the Supreme winners of the 2009 Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards. More >>
Careful Management helps win award
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 10:04 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Careful Management Of Coastal Dairy Farm Helps Otaitai Couple Win Supreme Environmental Award Otaitai Bush dairy farmers Vaughan and Megan Templeton are the Supreme winners of the 2009 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards. The Templetons, who farm ... More >>
Farming Partnership Claims Top Environmental Prize
Friday, 3 April 2009, 12:36 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
South Wairarapa farmers Tim and Jo Loe are the Supreme winners of the 2009 Greater Wellington/Wairarapa Ballance Farm Environment Awards. More >>
'Big Picture' Partnership Claims Environment Prize
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 9:44 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
A 'big picture vision' has earned an organic dairy farming partnership the top award in the 2009 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Gray and Marilyn Baldwin and their sharemilkers Hamish and Jane Putt were named Supreme Winners of the annual ... More >>
Ballance Renews Commitment To Farm Awards
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:07 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
The future of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards looks even brighter following the announcement that Ballance Agri-Nutrients has renewed its sponsorship for another three years. More >>
Building Dairy Environment Leaders Forum 2008
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 2:00 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Some of New Zealand’s top dairy farmers will be heading to Nelson in December to attend the Building Dairy Environment Leaders Forum 2008. More >>
Risk Pays Off For Northland Farmer
Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 1:47 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Northland farmer Leonie Batt took a risk when she diversified into avocados in the early 1980s, but she was determined to keep farming after the death of her husband. More >>
Award for the awards?
Friday, 7 November 2008, 3:42 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
The Ballance Farm Environment Awards have been announced as a finalist in the New Zealand Herald 2008 Sponsorship Awards. More >>
Award Rewards Work of Previous Generations
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 4:22 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Norman and wife Helen run a 300ha cropping farm with the help of Norman’s father Peter. They won a PGG Wrightson Habitat Improvement Award this year for the preservation of wetlands on the Drummond farm and on a 60ha QEII covenanted block of coastal land ... More >>
2009 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 10:17 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Held in eight regions throughout the country, the awards celebrate people who are farming in a manner that is economically, environmentally and socially sustainable. More >>
Win Shows Farmers Working Hard For Environment
Monday, 6 October 2008, 2:19 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
“Dairy farmers get a lot of bad press when it comes to environmental issues, so we wanted to do something positive for the industry,” he says. “The silent majority of dairy farmers are doing their best to be good farmers, and we saw this competition ... More >>
Competition Real Eye Opener For Manawatu Farmer
Friday, 3 October 2008, 3:25 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Ian Easton’s involvement with the Ballance Farm Environment Awards as both an entrant and a judge helped him clarify his goals for the long term sustainability of his Manawatu farm. More >>
Tree Hobby Rewarded With Habitat Improvement Award
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 5:29 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Tree planting is a labour of love for Manawatu farmer Mike Bourke and he never expected to win an award for it. Since leaving school he has planted thousands of trees on his 400ha hill country sheep and beef farm near Rangiwahia, about 30km northeast ... More >>
High Country Farmers Get Value From Awards
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 4:30 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Competing in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards provided the Butson family with a valuable outside view of their High Country operation. More >>
Farmers Encouraged To Enter Ballance Awards
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 11:27 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Entries for the 2009 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards open on October 1 and former winner Earl Dillon is encouraging farmers to enter. More >>
Farmers Set To Enter The Fray Again
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 11:26 am | Ballance Farm Environment awards
Two years after winning a category award in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards, Pikowai farmers Bruce and Tessa Calder are all set to enter the competition again. More >>
Farm environment award winners receive LIC tool
Friday, 12 September 2008, 5:33 pm | Ballance Farm Environment awards
LIC has stepped up its support of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards by offering a special prize for regional dairy farm winners. More >>
