Celebrating the best of the NZ Dairy Industry
Learn, Connect, Grow. Stand out. Be rewarded.
2024 NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN CLOSE 31 JANUARY 2024
Responsible Dairying Award
The Fonterra Responsible Dairy Award (FRDA) recognises farmers/farm businesses who are doing positive and aspirational things in the dairy sustainability space, and therefore contribute to good stories about the dairy industry.
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Come and celebrate the rising stars of the industry at our regional award dinners.
Award Categories
Why enter the
NZ Dairy Industry Awards?
Learn.Connect.Grow.
Accelerate your learning and development, challenge yourself, raise the bar and climb your career ladder.
Stand out
Stand out from the herd, showcase your skills and turn your passion and drive into something that sets you apart.
Driving best practice and improving dairying tomorrow
With a proud 34-year track record, the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards celebrate the best in the New Zealand Dairy Industry. Driving best practice and improving dairying tomorrow, the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards runs a programme of over 60 events directly involving over 6000 people ranging from dairy farmers to rural professionals, rural businesses, and the wider rural communities. Entrants have the chance to challenge themselves, earn a regional or national title and share in substantial regional and national prize pools.
WORDS FROM OUR FARMERS
"What does responsible farming mean to us? It’s really all-inclusive, it’s environmental sustainability, it’s looking after the land, environment and water, it’s looking after the animals and our people."
- Cameron Henderson, Recipient of the Fonterra Responsible Dairying Award 2023