**UPDATE** 9 May Phil Colombus has come third in the 2014 national Dairy Industry Awards Farm Manager of the Year competition. Phil was also awarded the Fonterra Best Practice Award and the PrimaryITO Human Resource Management Award. Congratulations to Phil Colombus who has won the Canterbury North Otago Farm Manager of the Year title at the 2014 Canterbury North Otago Dairy Industry Awards on Tuesday evening, 4 February. As well as the Farm Manager of the Year Award, Phil also took out the TH Enterprises Ltd Leadership Award, RD1 Farm Management Award and the Westpac Financial Planning and Management Award. A farm manager for Ngāi Tahu Farming at Eyrewell, this is the second time Phil has entered the awards and the second time he has come out on top. In 2006 he won the Upper South Island Dairy Trainee of the Year title. Phil has worked his way up the … Continue reading Phil Colombus, Regional Farm Manager of the Year