Article: Award victor urges others to have a go

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Waikato Times
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September 29, 2009
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An organic dairy farmer who won the supreme award in this year's Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards, Gray Baldwin, is urging his fellow farmers not to find excuses to enter next year's competition.

Entries open on Thursday for the new contest.

Mr Baldwin, his wife Marilyn and sharemilkers Hamish and Jane Putt won the supreme award in this year's competition in March, for the way they run their 410-cow farm, west of Putaruru.

The judges selected their farm because they had "sustainability in mind throughout the business".

Mr Baldwin, a former chief executive of Ballance-owned Summit- Quinphos, said other farmers often made excuses not to enter the awards, saying they wanted to ...

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