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Our Awards

Celebrate Success and Strive for Excellence

Rylib Group Performance Awards

Started in 2010 as a way for John and Kelly to celebrate the collective success of the team. The awards reward individuals for their hard work and nurture a culture that recognises high achievers, laughs at their mistakes and encourages plenty of respectful fun as a team.

The annual event is sponsored by main suppliers in the form of merchandise, with the company offering monetary prizes for several of the awards. Farm Managers, Assistant Managers, key stakeholders and, of course, their partners, are all invited.

The two biggest awards are the ‘Farm Pride‘ award and ‘Farm of the Year‘, based on EFS (Economic Farm Surplus). This fosters healthy competition, with Managers eager to adopt and implement the successful processes of each other’s operations on their own farms.

The benefits of this event and the culture it helps to fuel, far outweigh the cost to the business, and every year the Nicholls family relish the opportunity to show the team how much they are valued and appreciated.

Rylib Group

2025 performance

awards

Off to the big city we went! An outstanding weekend in Auckland we had. The weekend started with a beautiful morning at Waiheke ziplining through the treetops. Auckland showed us what four seasons in one day meant with a mad dash back to the ferry in the pouring rain. The QT sprinkled their magic, and the sun was out for an evening on the rooftop. Our Guest Speaker Mike Casey joined us from Rewiring Aotearoa, safe to say he had everyone powered up and ready to install solar panels on every roof. A fun-filled evening celebrating a very successful season at Rylib and gearing up for another outstanding season. Huge thanks to all our sponsors, and to our teams who make this all possible. The big winners for the night were:

Farm of the Year

James Martin

Sponsored by: ASB

Farm Pride

Murray Bowden

Sponsored by: PMR Grain Systems

Driving our Culture & Values Alignment

Mark Anderson

Sponsored by: Tavendale & Partners

Driving the Cultural Change w Health & Safety

Alisha Hunter

Sponsored by: Morrison Agri

Highest In-calf rate at 6 weeks

James Martin

Sponsored by: Dairy Vets

Farm Environmental Excellence

Jonathon Hoets

Sponsored by: Rylib Group

Business Understanding & Growth

Mark Anderson

Sponsored by: BDO

Assistant Manager of the Year

Shayden Gardiner

Job opportunities

at Rylib Group

We offer great opportunities to grow within the Group and foster long term working relationships with every member of our team.