Three in a row!

A spotlight of the launch of the Ruataki mo te Taurikura, Embracing Change for Prosperity technique was seeing all three Ahuwhenua trophies on show.

It’s the primary time all three have been displayed directly because the horticulture trophy was contested for the primary time in 2020. The Ahuwhenua trophy competitors is designed to recognise the highest Māori farms in dairy, sheep and beef and horticulture and is rotated round these on a 3 12 months cycle.

About 70 folks, together with the Minister of Agriculture, the top of MPI, Māori and pakeha agribusiness leaders, previous winners of the Ahuwhenua trophy and the Younger Māori Farmer, attended the launch.

Previous winner of the sheep and beef trophy in 2015 and Chair of the Ahuwhenua Belief Administration Committee, which runs the competitors, Nukuhia Hadfield, spoke in regards to the significance of getting all of the trophies collectively for the primary time.

She informed the gathering that the Ahuwhenua competitors offers Māori farmers a fantastic platform to place themselves ahead and to share their experiences. She says just by coming into the competitors they get the advantage of benchmarking and suggestions from a really skilled judging panel. Hadfield says such recommendation is invaluable in serving to them set their future strategic route.

She says turning into a finalists and winner allowed she and her husband Bart to develop professionally and validated numerous what they had been doing.

“It gave us confidences to develop and broaden our enterprise and at instances took us out of our consolation zone however in the long run we’re all of the extra resilient for it,” she says.