A cropping and wholesale business run by two families has won the supreme title in this year's Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Jock Webster, Nick Webster and Peter Mitchell of the Mitchell Webster Group produce bird and animal feeds from crops grown in North Otago.
Their intensive cropping business spans more than 1300 hectares of arable land in North Otago, growing sunflower and canary seed, along with a diverse range of other crops including feed wheat, barley, ryegrass, potatoes, lucerne, fodder beet and maize and grass silage.
The Mitchell and Webster families joined forces in 1972, creating what the judges describe said was an extraordinary and inspirational family business that has withstood the test of time.
Their birdseed and small animal feed business, Topflite Ltd, now sells around 1600 tonnes of birdseed mixes and associated products a year in Australasia.
