Past Winners

Corteva Agricience have been proud sponsors of the annual Hort Innovations Young Grower of the Year award since 2018. Meet all of our past winners and nominees.

2024

2024 Young Grower of the Year, Zeke Zalsman from Oldbury, Western Australia, was recognised for his commitment to sustainability and a zest for innovation that has propelled him into new ventures.

Meet the 2024 Nominees

2023

In 2023, Robert Arvier from West Pine Ag in Tasmania took out honours for Young Grower of the year. Read more about him and his worthy runners-up.

Meet the 2023 Nominees

2022

Damien Manno, from Quality Harvest took out the 2022 Young Grower of the Year award in recognition of his innovation and dedication to excellence.

Meet the 2022 Nominees

Damien Manno Young Grower of the Year 2022

2021

Potato grower Xavier Toohey from Wallace in Victoria was the 2021 Winner of the Young Grower of the Year Award. Xavier was praised for his leadership and tenacity.

Meet the 2021 Nominees

2019

2019 Young Grower of the Year, Daniel Hoffman is a 35-year-old vegetable grower from Penfield, South Australia, specialising in IPM and Biodynamic farming of Tomatoes, capsicums, eggplant, cucumber and bunch lins.

Meet the 2019 Nominees

2018

2018 Winner was Victorian mushroom producer Chris McLoghlin of The Organic Mushroom Farm, the largest certified organic mushroom farming company in Australia at the time.

Meet the 2018 Nominees

Chris McLoghlin, 2018 Young Grower of the Year

Growing Together

This year Corteva and Stoller are growing together, under the new moniker – Corteva Biologicals. Learn more about what Corteva will be doing at Hort Connections 2024 in Melbourne.

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Past Winners & Nominees