MASSIVE CROWDS and excellent site facilities distinguished the Irish National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Stradbally, County Laois, 100km NW of Dublin, in September.

PATRICK MALLEY from Northland was the big winner at last night's Young Horticulturist of the Year awards, taking home the top prize and three other awards.

FONTERRA CHAIRMAN John Wilson says 'solutions not problems' is the way the co-op works to support its farmer shareholders.

We've had a global financial crisis but we now have an upcoming global food crisis and only innovation and technology that will avert it, says Berry Marttin, Rabobank Group Netherlands executive board member.

MEAT INDUSTRY Excellence (MIE) chairman John McCarthy is urging farmers to vote for Fiona Hancox in their upcoming election.

FONTERRA SHAREHOLDERS Council chairman Ian Brown has welcomed South Canterbury farmer Leonie Guiney's election to the co-op board.

ENTRIES FOR the 2015 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards close at midnight this coming Sunday 30 November 2014.

TWO LYTTON High School students are eyeing a brighter future as they work towards achieving their primary industries VP awards.

GEORGIA DAVIES (21), from Oxford, is urging young New Zealanders to get involved in A&P Shows, after winning a Lady Diana Isaac Scholarship at last year’s Canterbury Show.

CHRISTCHURCH LAWYER Richard Parkes is the first non-farmer ever elected president of the Canterbury A&P Association.