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A day in the life of an arable farmer…

February 15, 2021 by Simon Edwards

New Zealand’s arable industry is worth $2.1 billion each year to the economy, and earns us $260 million in export sales.  It also employs more than 11,300 Kiwis. It’s a diverse sector, and a world leader in both volume and quality producing the likes of radish seed, white clover seed and carrot seed. But while […]

Sharing a farm with the public

February 7, 2021 by Simon Edwards

Kate Scott, a Federated Farmers member, is the co-owner of remote Rees Valley Station, near Glenorchy. Thousands of people visit her farm each year. Late last year she talked to the Walking Access Commission/Ara Hīkoi Aotearoa about why she and her family support public access and what it’s like to have a stream of tourists on […]

Harnessing the power of catchment groups

January 21, 2021 by Simon Edwards

Policy aimed at changing practices on individual farms isn’t working, writes Jim Sinner from the Our Land and Water Collective Responsibility research team. Could collective management, through catchment groups, achieve better outcomes for our waterways? (This article was first published on the National Science Challenges website.) Over the past several years, I’ve had a growing […]

The underground army

January 18, 2021 by Rebecca Flannery

Dung beetles release at Cameron Hendersons North Canterbury Farm

New Zealand is recognised as the world’s leading pastoral agricultural producer. Pasture-based exports account for almost half of our total exports and given the state of the rest of the world, we are quickly becoming globally recognised as gold standard food producers. Unfortunately, all that productivity puts us in the shit…. tonnes of it.  It’s […]

No ordinary day for this shearer

January 14, 2021 by Rebecca Flannery

It was an ordinary Thursday for most of us this week, but not for Southland shearer Megan Whitehead.  Yesterday Megan spent nine hours tackling the women’s world lamb shearing record near Gore.  Former women’s world record holder Jills Angus Burney (and the only woman to have beaten David Fagan) was supporting Megan as her mentor.  “Megan achieved the […]

Scholarship allows dream career in beekeeping to take flight

December 15, 2020 by Simon Edwards

A Bay of Plenty teen has been given a boost to his dream career in beekeeping after receiving the 2020 Apiculture New Zealand Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship. Ohope-based Angus Brenton-Rule was thrilled to win the scholarship, which provides $2000 to support training and set up costs for new beekeepers, a one-year membership to industry body […]

Remarkable lambing performance in challenging year

December 14, 2020 by Simon Edwards

Despite COVID-19 related processing restrictions and a widespread drought in the first half of 2020, sheep and beef farmers achieved a near record 130.3% lambing percentage. This is the finding of the Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Lamb Crop Outlook report for 2020 that measures the lambing performance and forecasts lamb and sheep exports […]

Stalled boarding allowance a barrier to equitable education access

December 8, 2020 by Simon Edwards

Federated Farmers intends ramping up political pressure for a long overdue increase to the school access barrier boarding allowance. This follows a Feds’ survey of farming families which revealed substantial costs and family disruption from the access barrier board allowance being totally outstripped by the fees that boarding schools charge. Average state boarding school fees […]

Bare-all calendar raises spirits – and funds

December 8, 2020 by Simon Edwards

In a time when Hawke’s Bay farmers were experiencing a drought like no other since the 1980s as well as dealing with the consequences of COVID19, Poppy Renton wanted to reach out and foster a dose of community spirit. The daughter of a fifth generation Hawke’s Bay farmer working the land at Maraekakaho, west of […]

Feds members show excellence in sustainable irrigation

December 7, 2020 by Simon Edwards

Federated Farmers members Ted and Sue Rollinson are the New Zealand region winners of the inaugural Zimmatic™ Sustainable Irrigation Awards. The Rollinson’s own a 380-hectare dairy farm in mid-Canterbury. Sharemilkers Tom and Leanne Heneghan, who are also Feds members, have been on farm for 11 years and milk 1,500 cows on the property. The Awards […]

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