The winners of the Ministry of Agriculture's "Sējējs 2025" competition were announced at an awards ceremony held on 25 October at the Hanzas perons cultural centre in Riga. The "Sējējs" laureates were congratulated and prizes awarded in nine competition categories. This year the competition was held for the 32nd time. The winners were congratulated at the awards ceremony by Minister of Agriculture Armands Krauze and President Edgars Rinkēvičs.

The winners of the "Sējējs 2025" competition:

1. "For a Lifetime Contribution to Agriculture" – Dzidra Kreišmane, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Soil and Plant Sciences of the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies;
2. "Farm of the Year" – ZS "Kotiņi", Šķilbēni parish, Balvi municipality;
3. "Food Production Company of the Year" – AS "Ķekava Foods", Ķekava;
4. "Family on the Farmstead" – the Tēraudi family, SIA "Zaļā sala-R", Griškāni parish, Rēzekne municipality;
5. "Successful Young Farmer" – Beatrise Laimdota Pastare, Sēme parish, Tukums municipality;
6. "Most Successful Collaboration of the Year" – KS "Piena loģistika", Valmiera;
7. "Organic Farm" – ZS "Birznieki", Vāne parish, Tukums municipality;
8. "LEADER Project of the Year in a Local Action Group"– SIA "Organic Products", Ludza, and the association "Ludzas rajona partnerība";
9. "Science in Practice and Innovation" – the research team of Ph.D. Pawel Gornas, Dr. sc. ing. Dalija Segliņa, M. sc. sal. Inga Mišina, Bc. Elise Sipeniece and Bc. Ieva Miķelsone for the study"St John's wort (Hypericum): a newly discovered source of vitamin E in Latvia", Institute of Horticulture.

Entrants in eight of the categories were assessed by panels of professionals from the relevant fields, while the Agricultural Advisory Council voted on the candidates for the "For a Lifetime Contribution to Agriculture" award.

This year the competition introduced something new – a public recognition vote, which ran online for one month right up to the awards ceremony. The aim of this vote was to identify the Latvian public's favourite among all the entrants in the "Sējējs 2025" competition, with the winner receiving the special Public Recognition Award. The public showed great engagement in the vote – 49,693 people took part in the Public Recognition vote in total. SIA "JK timber" won the public recognition vote with 6,501 votes.

The competition winners received the "Sējējs" Annual Award (a bronze statuette), a diploma and a cash prize. The presentation of the "Sējējs" awards has become the most important event honouring Latvia's finest farmers, and the title of "Sējējs" laureate a mark of exemplary work. Further information about the competition is available on the website www.sejejs.lv. Since last year, entering the competition has been made considerably simpler – anyone could submit an entry online.