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Hawke's Bay Primary Sector Awards

Enter the Hawke’s Bay Primary Sector Awards


It’s important to celebrate excellence within the primary sector and those that showcase best practice in their career, on farm or orchard, or in industry.

The Napier Port Primary Sector Awards are an opportunity to encourage people to identify who’s making a difference and nominate them for their respective award category. The awards represent and recognise leaders past, present and future, who contribute to making our region succeed. Previous recipients have carried on achieving incredible heights within the sector in Hawke’s Bay and across New Zealand.

Do one or more of these 10 Award categories resonate with you or someone you know? Enter yourself or nominate someone for the 2025 awards.

Get involved - the competition experience has helped develop many leaders in our region today.

To Enter

Entries & Nominations close 14th February & Scholarship 24th March 2025.
Awards Dinner Thursday 3rd April 2025

The full list of awards is below. Click on the award name to download the entry form.

2025 Silver Fern Farms Farmer of the Year entry form

2025 Rural Directions Shepherd of the Year entry form

2025 Bayleys Primary Sector Innovation entry form

2025 Unison Professional of the Year nomination form

2025 Pan Pac Farm Forester of the Year entry form

2025 Lawson Robinson Scholarship entry form

2025 Laurie Dowling Memorial nomination form

2025 Horticentre Horticulturalist of the Year entry form

2025 Heretaunga Hastings District Council Industry leader nomination form

2025 Craigs Investment Partners Emerging Leader nomination form