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Biddy Barnes

Brigitte "Biddy" Barnes, Canterbury (NZ) dairy farmer who — with husband Braden Barnes — won the 2025 Fonterra & ASB First Farm Award and bought their first farm in Sheffield, Canterbury.

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Aug 19, 2026

Episode 125 - Finding Security

Aug 19 · 37m

7:07

So tell us about the process of the award, first of all, and getting that loan and what exactly the loan is for and how it

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7:17

works.

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7:19

The process for getting the award, we entered... which was very easy, just a email application to make sure that you qualified.

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7:29

So you have to have entered the Dairy Industry Awards within the last seven years, I believe.

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7:35

You don't have to have won or placed or anything, just entered.

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7:40

And you can't have more than 51% share in a farm currently.

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7:46

for that particular award.

9 MINS LATER

Brayden BarnesGUEST

17:13

And we stayed contract milking for, what was it, five years and then got the opportunity to go 50-50 and it was five years 50-50.