Ahuwhenua awards: Young Māori farmer award winner s Covid-19 career change
16 May, 2021 11:28 PM
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Young Māori Farmer Quinn Morgan was announced as the winner at a gala dinner in New Plymouth, Taranaki. Photo / Supplied
Young Māori Farmer Quinn Morgan was announced as the winner at a gala dinner in New Plymouth, Taranaki. Photo / Supplied
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A Whakatāne man forced to head back to New Zealand as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded has found a new career, and scooped a Young Māori Farmer Award.
Quinn Morgan, who is working his first season on a dairy farm was awarded this years Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award at a gala dinner in New Plymouth on Friday.
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The other two finalists were Anahera Hale, 26, who is working as the second-in-charge farm assistant on Rod and Jackie McPherson’s dairy farm near Whakatāne, where they winter about 360 cows; and Ben Purua, also 26, who is working as the second-in-charge for a contract milker at Trinity Lands farm, near Tokoroa in the South Waikato, which milks 900 cows. The Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award was first held in 2012 and is designed to recognise talented up-and-coming young Māori farmers and growers, and to encourage young Māori to make farming a career choice. Judge Aaron Hunt said Quinn Morgan exemplified all that is good about young Māori who are making successful careers in the primary sector.