The winners were announced at the Awards Night in Wellington on Friday 8 November.
The Guild offers a series of awards each year, in conjunction with our sponsors, for excellence in written and broadcast agricultural journalism.
The full list of award winners are:
- Ministry for Primary Industries Rongo Award was won by the Farmers Weekly team, Richard Rennie, Bryan Gibson, Neal Wallace and Steve Wynn-Harris, for a feature where they revisited Cyclone Gabrielle six months and one year on. Sally Rae, for a compelling and comprehensive series – part of a regional competition - that champions growers and farmers in their region; and Kate Evans for two articles, one on the concept of “urchinomics” and one on farming native species of fish in completely new ways.
- AgResearch Science Writers Award was won by Anne Lee, for two CountryWide Media NZ Dairy Exporter stories on gene editing and genetic modification. Story 1. Story 2.
- Federated Farmers Broadcast Journalism Award was won by Sally Round for two items that were broadcast on RNZs Country Life programme. One on agrivoltaics - solar energy farming and one on lameness in dairy cows.
- Beef + Lamb Hard News Award was won by Tim Cronshaw, for two articles for Canterbury Rural Life, ODT online showing the pressure farmers were coming under from the burden of growing red tape and farmers sending to the works triplet bearing ewes because it was getting so dry in North Canterbury.
- Alliance Group Ltd Red Meat Industry Journalism Award was won by Shawn McAvinue for two articles published in Southern Rural Life. One on farmers selling to forestry companies and another on a visit to a Field Day and focussing on on-farm rising costs.
- Wools of New Zealand Rural Photography Award was won by Aaron Smale for a photo taken to illustrate a story that was included in a six-part series about forestry slash on the East Coast.
- DairyNZ Dairy Industry Award was won by Riley Kennedy, for articles for BusinessDesk. One on the Fonterra of the dairy goat industry, and another on Australian legislation being used to New Zealand’s advantage.
- Pāmu Agricultural Journalism Encouragement Award was won by Gianina Schwanecke, for items for Country Life on farm sales, working dogs, and Wellington's wild kiwi.
- NZGAJC Primary Sector Communications Campaign Award was won by the team behind Rere ki uta rere ki tai, which included a range of videos to raise awareness of sustainable land management practices by connecting people with Mātauranga Māori and scientific expertise from organisations like Tainui Group Holdings and Lincoln University.
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If you have questions about the awards please email secretary@nzgajc.org.nz