Article: Second sponsor quits awards

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 ...

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