{"id":405891,"date":"2026-05-01T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:59:08","slug":"nominations-open-for-2026-horticulture-industry-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405891\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations open for 2026 Horticulture Industry Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gisborne Herald<\/p>\n

1 May, 2026 12:10 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n

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Fruitgrowers Federation president Andrew Fenton was awarded the Bledisloe Cup at the 2025 Horticulture Industry Awards. Nominations are open for the 2026 awards.<\/p>\n

New Zealand growers and those across the wider sector, including Tair\u0101whiti, are being encouraged to recognise the people driving the industry forward by nominating them for the 2026 Horticulture Industry Awards.<\/p>\n

The awards, comprising six categories, celebrate excellence, leadership, service and innovation across the sector.<\/p>\n

\n Horticulture New Zealand board chair
\n Bernadine Guilleux said the awards were an opportunity to shine a light on the individuals and teams whose efforts often went unrecognised.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThese awards are about celebrating the people who make a real difference \u2013 those who lead, innovate, support others and consistently go the extra mile.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six award categories are \u2013 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gisborne Herald 1 May, 2026 12:10 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,2840,10779,682,4189,135781,2082,19134,23361,85476,8454,2454,111,43,139,109987,57271,69,5493,384,33021,12975,30279,2846,7563,71895,80],"class_list":["post-405891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-across","tag-awards","tag-being","tag-driving","tag-encouraged","tag-for","tag-forward","tag-growers","tag-horticulture","tag-including","tag-industry","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nominating","tag-nominations","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-people","tag-recognise","tag-sector","tag-tairwhiti","tag-them","tag-those","tag-wider","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}