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The Hereford Year

Photogeneic Herefords help

award-winning business

AMANDA KING owns and operates her business, By the Horns, from and unlimited edition prints through her online store. She also
her home on a farm near the Rakaia Gorge. A keen photographer, supplies prints to a limited number of retail stores in New Zealand,
Amanda has transformed her passion and rural location into a Australia and South Africa. Her online customers are worldwide.
successful online business that sells extraordinary fine art prints Visit bythehorns.co.nz to view Amanda’s work.
and canvases of rural animals, landscapes and seascape images. Hereford magazine editor Kate Taylor featured in the same
She won the Emerging Business category – for a business starting awards, with her business communiKate winning the Rural
out on its journey and achieving exceptional results, sponsored by Champion category.
ANZ – at the 2019 NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards. BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: One of Amanda’s prints featuring a
Amanda takes the photographs herself, completes any post- Hereford bull; One of Amanda’s favourite photos is called We Three
production work, adds them to her profile, and sells limited Kings, featuring three bulls from the Okawa Hereford Stud.

Honorary life

membership to

Peter Smyth

WORDS NZHA PHOTOGRAPHS SUPPLIED

PETER SMYTH, PICTURED WITH HIS WIFE JILL and NZHA
president Colin Corney, after being awarded an honorary life
membership to the New Zealand Hereford Association at last
year’s AGM in Palmerston North.
Peter and Jill established the Na Puteputi Stud in Hawke’s
Bay in 1968. Their daughter Anna and son-in-law Brent Fisher
in Canterbury used cows from the Smyth’s stud to establish
a new horned Herefords venture in 2012. The Fishers now
have 60 registered Hereford cows run alongside Silverstream
Charolais.

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