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Well, it was supposed to be a dry summer, but all it has done here in Northland is rain!

A celebration of environmental excellence will be held for the first time in Northland next year.

Northland farmers Ian and Sandy Page say they thoroughly enjoyed entering the 2015 Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) and would highly recommend it to others.

A careful overall environmental strategy is paying off for a Northland drystock farming couple.

Subdivision and longer round length has transformed George and Peggy Morrison’s Northland drystock farm into a highly profitable operation. The farm was the subject of a recent Beef + Lamb NZ field day.

If you asked the average Queen Street office worker to describe a high input, high output farm they’d probably describe an operation on the flats whose owners relied on PKE and thought little about the environmental impact of their farm.

Justin Atkinson aged 35 is a winemaker and viticultralist at Marsden Estate.

Northland has 15 Wineries and around 45 vineyards from Mangawhai in the south to Kari Kari in the far North.

For the past four years the Okaihau property of Alister and Lyn Candy and their daughter Christine has been Northland’s DairyNZ focus farm.

When Fonterra’s milk tankers do their rounds, the northern-most farm they call on – in all New Zealand – is Len and Pearl Crewther’s in the Far North.