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Article: Second sponsor quits awards
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- Waikato Times
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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Organisers of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards are
considering reprinting their entry forms after Silver Fern Farms
said it had pulled out.
The South Island-based meat co- operative has become the second
sponsor of the annual awards to drop out this year after the
Hamilton-based Gallagher Group cancelled its sponsorship for the
innovation award in April.
Awards chairman Jim Cotman, who farms at Te Kauwhata, said he was
disappointed with the announcement Silver Fern Farms would not
sponsor the livestock award in the 2010 competition.
He said their withdrawal had come after the entry forms for the
competition had been printed with their logo on it.
Gallaghers had give a year's notice ...