Raising the profile of farming is something the new judging co-ordinator for the Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards is passionate about. Mrs Cross is no stranger to the awards process; she and her husband Brendon were supreme winners in the Otago awards in 2016. Coincidentally, that couple — kiwifruit growers Mark and Catriona White, from the Bay of Plenty — were this year’s winners of the national Ballance Farm Environment Awards and the Gordon Stephenson Trophy. Brendon was always keen to enter the farm environment awards and the couple first entered in 2005. One entrant in the farm environment awards had embarked on regenerative pasture management and that was really exciting.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 12, 2018 15:33 UTC