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Changes to Judging Criteria in Dairy Awards
For Immediate Release
19 November 2009
Organisers
of the 2010 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards have changed
the way judges evaluate some criteria in the Sharemilker of
the Year and Farm Manager of the Year
competitions.
National Convenor Chris Keeping says
that since entries had opened on November 1, organisers had
received significant interest in the changes that have been
made to the human resource management section in both
contests and the financial management section of the farm
manager contest.
The Dairy Awards runs three awards -
the Sharemilker of the Year, Farm Manager of the Year and
Dairy Trainee of the Year.
"We decided there needed
to be changes in the human resource section as some of our
sharemilker and farm manager entrants manage one or more
staff while others have no staff responsibility at all.
"We also looked at the financial section in the farm
manager competition as this is another area where there can
be a wide variation in what farm managers are responsible
for," Mrs Keeping says.
"Our objective was to make
the contests fairer for all entrants and for them not to
feel disadvantaged if they did not employ staff or were not
directly responsible for the finances of the farm they
managed."
She says those managing staff will be
judged on the management and development of their staff,
while those with no staff will be judged on other
relationships such as those with their farm owner and rural
professionals. In the farm manager contest, entrants with
involvement in farm finances will be judged on planning and
monitoring while those with no involvement will be judged on
their understanding and awareness of effect on farm
finances.
The changes do not affect the Dairy Trainee
of the Year contest.
The New Zealand Dairy Industry
Awards are supported by national sponsors Westpac, DairyNZ,
Ecolab, Federated Farmers, Fonterra, Honda Motorcycles NZ,
LIC, Meridian Energy, Ravensdown and RD1, along with
industry partner Agriculture ITO.
Entry forms can be
downloaded from <http://www.dairyindustryawards.co.nz>
Entries close on December 24.
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