 When we first heard we'd won Agtown up at Mount Barker, we were very ecstatic about what was going on. It's been a really long journey since then, however. It came, it burst the banks that generally hold the water on the side of the river and allowed inundation of the reclaimed swamps, which is a perfect pasture land for us. Here at Maipo you could see how people have banded together, how they're helping neighbours out. Of course the Agtown of the Year was announced well before the floods and that spirit was recognised even then in what people had done within this local area. Not everyone that's here today celebrating the Agtown of the Year Award comes together regularly. It's actually brought people together. Today is just the feel-good event to forget about the flood for a bit. Today onwards at Spain's we start living the crown of the Agtown of the Year Award.