New Zealand Farm Environment Awards
The New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust is an independent non-profit organisation which seeks to advance sustainable environmental management of land and other resources on farms. The Trust owns and operates the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) and manages several extension projects. An updated business plan for the NZFEA Trust has been posted on this site, if you wish to read it, follow this link.
The independence of the Trust provides a platform for strong partnerships with other businesses that share our values and also seek to promote good management of the Farm Environment.
The dates for the 2009 Ballance Farm Environment Awards have been posted, follow this link to find out the dates in your region. If you wish you can enter on line, or you can down load an entry form, more information on the BFEA is available here.
On the 27 June the Sustainabilty Showcase was held in Palmeston North, it bought together the 8 regional Supreme Winners and celebrated their sucess. The first NZFEA and MAF Scholarship was also announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Jim Anderton, to read his address follow this link. The winner was David Ward from Canterbury, his study project will focus on the use of lucerne as either a cut-and-carry forage crop or for grazing for dairy farms and dairy support blocks. To read more about David's plans, follow this link
To read about the Supreme Winners of the 2008 BFEA click on the following links Horizons, Northland, Otago, Southland, Canterbury, Waikato Bay of Plenty and Wellington/Wairarapa.
Jamie McKay from the Farming Show will be interviewing the Supreme winners over the next few weeks, to listen to David Ward click here. Evan & Shirleen Smeath were the Northland Supreme winner in 2007, since April last year they have been flooded three times, to listen to Jamie's interview with Evan follow this link.
Stories about our judges and previous entrants have recently been posted to the web. To read about them and what they say about the BFEA, follow this link.
