Wanaka-based global exporter awarded for business excellence
Wanaka-based global exporter Aquasystems Australasia has collected a business excellence award in recognition of the company’s innovation and growth.
Organisers of this year's Wanaka A&P Show are gearing up for another packed event, with a line-up of entertainment planned for all ages.
Some of the events at the March 13-14 show include Kiwi agricultural entertainer Greg Clark, from the North Island, who is coming to Wanaka to perform his comedy act, Sheep-N-Show. The New Zealand Wool Board endorses the act, which blends sheep shearing and hilarity.
Elsewhere the Southland Otago Axemen will compete in the Wanaka Show's first wood-chopping competition.
The show will again play host to the prestigious Beef + Lamb NZ Golden Lamb Awards (aka The Glammies), where farmers compete for the coveted title of Golden Lamb. This year's celebrity judges are Olympic medallists Lisa Carrington and Sarah Walker, plus NZ Listener food columnist Lauraine Jacobs, chief judge and chef Graham Hawkes, and ambassador chef Reon Hobson. Judging begins at 1.30pm on the Friday.
Dunedin band Idol Frets will play at the food court on Pembroke Park on both days and local band Cemetery Road play at the village green on Pembroke Park on Saturday. The Alexandra Pipe Band will lead the Grand Parade on Saturday.
The show will also have plenty of activities for children with NZ entertainer Shad Rutherford, roving the showgrounds, plus big bubbles, stilt walkers and hula-hoops.
On Saturday, the Jack Russell race returns.
The Wanaka Show also presents equestrian and livestock competition, with hundreds of competitors from around the country travelling to Wanaka.
The Wanaka Show will be held on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14. Speaker of the House and former Minister for Primary Industries David Carter will open the event at 12.45pm on Saturday, just before the Grand Parade.
South Waikato farm manager Ben Purua’s amazing transformation from gang life to milking cows was rewarded with the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer award last night.
Bankers have been making record profits in the last few years, but those aren’t the only records they’ve been breaking, says Federated Farmers vice president Richard McIntyre.
The 2023-24 season has been a roller coaster ride for Waikato dairy farmers, according to Federated Farmers dairy section chair, Mathew Zonderop.
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) director general Ray Smith says job cuts announced this morning will not impact the way the Ministry is organised or merge business units.
Scales Corporation is acquiring a number of orchard assets from Bostock Group.
Family and solidarity shone through at the 75 years of Ferdon sale in Otorohanga last month.