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The winner of the 2015 Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori sheep and beef is Mangaroa Station owned by Bart and Nukuhia Hadfield.

More than 200 people turned up to the field day Maranga Station. Maranga is a typical East Coast hill country sheep and beef property and lies about 30km southwest of Gisborne on the Tiniroto Road.

Nearly 700 people will converge on Wanganui in two weeks to learn who has won the prestigious Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori sheep and beef farm.

Your old mate hears that a finalist in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy Competition – for the top Maori Sheep and beef farm – had some simple advice for the large number of young Pakeha shepherds attending the field day at Mangaroa Station.

Dana Blackburn is an Ohakune local – born and bred in nearby Raetihi. 

The backdrop to the 850ha property is spectacular, including the partly snow-covered Mt Ruapehu. 

At least 170 people turned out for the field day at Mangaroa Station, about an hour’s drive inland from Wairoa, on the North Island East Coast in mid-April.

Farms from the Far North and the East Coast have made the Ahuwhenua finals.

Finalist for the Ahuwhenua Trophy were announced at a function at Parliament recently, hosted by the Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy. 

Two finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy competition for the top Maori sheep and beef farm, Mangaroa and Maranga, are in typical East Coast hill country.