The Napier Port Primary Sector Awards is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate individuals, partners, groups and organisations that are contributing through their knowledge, skills and leadership to the Hawke's Bay Primary Sector.
The awards are made up of nine award categories, each to celebrate excellence within the Primary Sector.
Join us at the 2021 Napier Port Primary Sector Awards Dinner to network, enjoy and celebrate all of the amazing achievements that are occuring in our region. The Awards Dinner is being held on the 8th April 2021 with nominations closing on the 22nd February 2021.
Anyone can put forward a nomination into our nine award categories, and we encourage you to look at those within your community that deserve to be recoginses for their contribution in driving our incredible sector forward.
Below are the nine awards that make up the Napier Port Hawke's Bay Primary Sector Awards:
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ASSOCIATED SPONSORS
The primary objectives of the Silver Fern Farms Hawke's Bay Farmer of the Year competition are to identify, promote and celebrate excellence in pastoral farming in Hawke's Bay.
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2020 Recipients Tim and Alice Nelson
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2020 Recipient Cameron Taylor TaylorCorp
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If you would like to be involved as a sponsor or as an entrant in this exciting new award, please contact Isabelle Crawshaw on awards@showgroundshb.co.nz 0274210276
Field Day Sponsor:
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2020 Recipient Greg & Rachael Hartree |
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Thank you to our Hawke's Bay Farm Forester of the Year Sponsor Family and a special thank you to the Hawke's Bay Farm Forestry Association for their valuable time and dedication to ensuring the success of this award.
This award recognises an Outstanding Contribution to Agriculture in Hawke's Bay by awarding to a person who largely goes unrecognised and who works or gives of their time voluntarily to the betterment of Agriculture in Hawke's Bay. This is in keeping with the ideals of the late Laurie Dowling who was very much a man of the land throughout his consultancy career.
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2020 Recipient Roy Fraser |
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This scholarship aims to recognise outstanding academic and leadership qualities in a student currently enrolled in a full time land based production industries programme at a New Zealand University.
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2020 Recipient
Megan Hassall |
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The Hawke’s Bay Primary Sector Industry Leader of the Year Award for outstanding leadership achievement.
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2020 Recipient Mike Petersen |
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The Hawke's Bay Primary Sector Innovation Award will recognise outstanding innovation within the Hawke's Bay region. The purpose of this award is to identify, acknowledge and celebrate those in Hawke's Bay who have made a significant contribution through their knowledge, skills and application to improve the performance of the primary industries.
This award is open to Primary Sector of all kinds. It includes software, products, services and any innovation targeted towards the primary sectors. It celebrates innovation in farming, fisheries, horticulture, viticulture, forestry, applied agriculture research including the companies that service these sectors. Innovation in this category may also overlap and connect with innovation in food & beverage and health & science.
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2020 Recipient Agri-Lab Co-Products Ltd |
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An exciting new award joining the Primary Sector Awards to showcase the up and coming talent and future leaders in the agriculture industry. This award will be presented to an individual who demonstrates a strong knowledge in the fundamentals of shepherding including a good understanding of their current faming systems and their future goals in the primary sector. The recipient will display ambition and drive and will enjoy getting involved in their community. Eligible to anyone working on-farm within the Hawke’s Bay region with ‘Shepherd’ in their position title whether junior, senior or general.
2020 Recipient - Daniel Hall-Field
Entries are now open for the 2021 Napier Port Primary Sector Awards. Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner on the 8th April 2021.
Silver Fern Farms HB Farmer of the Year
Pan Pac Hawke's Bay Farm Forester of the Year
Lawson Robinson Hawke's Bay Scholarship
Hastings District Council Hawke's Bay Primary Sector Industry Leader
Unison Primary Sector Professional of the Year
BWR Primary Sector Innovation Award
Horticentre Hawke's Bay Horticulturalist of the Year
Rural Directions Hawke's Bay Shepherd of the Year
Entries Close for all awards on the 22nd February 2021, except for the scholarship closing on the 1st March 2021.
The Awards Dinner will be held on 19 March 2020. Tickets are on Mid January!
The Hawke's Bay A&P Society invites you to join with them to celebrate a year of excellence in the primary sector as we announce the winners of;
Silver Fern Farms Hawke's Bay Farmer of the Year
Pan Pac Hawke's Bay Farm Forester of the Year
Laurie Dowling Memorial Award
Lawson Robinson Hawke's Bay Scholarship
Hastings District Council Hawke's Bay Primary Sector Industry Leader
Unison Hawke's Bay Primary Sector Professional of the Year
Horticentre Horticulturalist of the Year
BWR Primary Sector Innovation Award
Date: 19 March 2020
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Exhibition Hall, ShowgroundsHawke's Bay
MC: TBC
Dress: Smart Business Attire
Tickets: $150 (plus GST) includes all beverages, 3 course meal and canapes
Pre Dinner drinks 5.30pm - 6.15pm. Awards Ceremony commences 6.15pm
To purhcase tickets please email or call prior to the 10th March 2020.
P: 06 8783123 Ext 6 M: 021 181 8686 E: awards@showgroundshb.co.nz
Hawke's Bay A&P Society
Showgrounds Hawke's Bay
Kenilworth Road
PO Box 349
Hastings
Phone 06 878 3123
Fax 06 878 3121
Isabelle Crawshaw, Awards Manager
Awards Dinner
8th April 2021
