October 2009
The Narraburra Cup is celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year and is one of the longest running Agricultural and Landcare competitions in NSW. The Narraburra cup highlights mixed farming operations that are innovative and who attempt to capitalise on market opportunities through solid planning. The theme of this years cup is "Balancing the farm budget through mixed farming". The criteria to enter is that your property is situated in the Temora Shire and that on being chosen as a finalist you must discuss your production system during a bus tour.
Bundawarrah was successful in being chosen as a finalist by the selection panel consisting of a member of the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority, Dept of Lands, the Temora Shire Council and the Westpac Banking Corporation. The application encompassed business innovation and achievement, production/efficiency, farming foresight and drought stategy, social responsibility/sustaining the natural resources and general.
On the 23rd of October, Kim joined the judging bus tour where, after all finalists showcased their enterprises, the judging panel and bus participants voted on the winners.
We were runners up and recieved the Jim Salmon Memorial Trophy. We are proud to be recipricants of this trophy as Jim was instrumental in planning our farm dams in the early years of the piggery and we appreciated and trusted his ideas and opinions.