We are proud to support events in the rural communities that support us, whether it be the local dog trials, the drought shout, the rural primary school calf club, the fundraising trail ride, or the rugby club fundraiser. The AFFCO team are there providing meat, cooking the BBQ, judging the lambs or coaching the rugby team. Contact your livestock buyer in the first instance.
For the second year running AFFCO donated meat and our livestock buyer Toby Power cooked the BBQ for this fundraising event for the BOP Rural Support Trust. The E-bike event was held on Omania Farm, in Rotorua and is known as Climb the Caldera. The participants could either ride up the 430 metre elevation using electric mountain bikes or leg power to be rewarded with360 degree view of Lake Okataina, Mount Tarawera and Rotorua. AFFCO proudly local.
AFFCO have supported the rural institution that is Dog Trials across the country as we realise how important these are for the local rural community; during the last 6 months we have supported events in Amuri, Awatere, Cheviot, Carterton, Heriot, Kumeroa, Kuriwao, Matawai, Methven, Moawhango, Parapara Makirikiri, Raetihi, Rotorua, Waikaia, Waikoha, Waikoua, Waimahka, Waimarama – Elsthorpe and even Whangamomona- you could say we have covered New Zealand.
The Ahuwhenua Trophy acknowledges and celebrates business excellence in Maori farming and AFFCO is a proud sponsor of these awards. The photo is of 2019 winners of the Sheep & Beef Competition Eugene and Pania King of Kiriroa Station. The awards were established in 1933, by Sir Apirana Ngata and the then Governer General Lord Bledisloe. They were established to encourage skill and proficiency in Maori farming. They continued through until 1990 and then relaunched in 2003, and from 2005 they have continued in the format of a dairy and sheep and beef competition in alternate years.
https://www.ahuwhenuatrophy.maori.nz/
