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Rabobank farmers of the year

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Rabobank farmers of the year

Abe and Anita de Wolde won the 2008 Lincoln University Foundation Farmer of the Year Award for innovative dairy practice on their Southland farm. Rabobank, a sponsor of the award, is an agricultural bank from the Netherlands, which has operated in New Zealand since 1997 when it purchased Wrightson Farmers Finance. The de Woldes themselves came to New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1990.

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David Tripe, Banking and finance – International banking connections, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24649/rabobank-farmers-of-the-year (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.