Farm machinery company CB Norwood has thrown its weight behind the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA).
It is the distributor of well known agricultural brands including Case IH, New Holland, and Kubota to name but a few.
CB Norwood has been welcomed to the BFEA sponsorship family by the New Zealand Farm Environment (NZFE) Trust, the organisation that administers the awards.
“The competition’s vision and values closely match those of CB Norwood, and we wanted to support a valuable initiative for New Zealand agriculture,” says CB Norwood chief executive officer Tim Myers
CB Norwood Distributors has been operating in New Zealand for more than 64 years and is a national supplier of tractor and equipment brands to the agriculture, horticulture and contracting sectors.
Myers says the company has a strong sustainability ethos and is dedicated to providing the primary sector with environmentally-friendly technological solutions, including low-emission diesel engines, precision farming technology (such as minimum tillage and advanced seeding) and efficient grassland, forage harvesting and nutrition-feeding practices.
“Sustainability on-farm is a function of various inputs, including farm machinery. We actively manage our product range to ensure that our machinery delivers the most efficient on-farm solution possible to our customers. That’s something we are very passionate about.”
Myers attended NZFE Trust’s National Showcase in June.
“It became very clear to us after the event in June that an association with the Trust and the Ballance Farm Environment Awards offered tangible benefits for the communities and the industry we are involved in,” he says
NZFE Trust chairman Simon Saunders says the Trust is looking forward to developing a long-term relationship with the company.
Saunders, a Southland farmer, says having a farm machinery company in the sponsorship team is “a good fit” because the increasing use of precision farming technology and lower emission engines are helping agricultural and horticultural operations become more sustainable.
“It’s great to have a farm machinery company join our family of sponsors and be associated with an awards programme that is continually growing and doing great work in the agricultural sector,” he says.
