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Honouring the arable sector’s tall poppies

June 30, 2022 by Simon Edwards

New Zealand’s arable industry is on the hunt for its ‘tall poppies’ – not to chop them down but to celebrate their achievements and to inspire others. “We’re a sector that generates $800 million of sales a year, $260m of that in exports, and we’re determined to better highlight to fellow New Zealanders the role […]

Good Employer Awards celebrate food and fibre sector

June 30, 2022 by Cameron MacDuff

Media release – NZ Government The food and fibre sector acknowledged its people and leadership at last night’s 2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards, a time to celebrate their passion towards supporting employees by putting their health, welfare and wellbeing first,” Acting Minister of Agriculture Meka Whairiti said. “Award winners were selected from an extraordinary […]

Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network welcomed as “a force for rural health”

June 29, 2022 by Cameron MacDuff

Media release – Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network Over 150 rural health representatives from across New Zealand gathered at Parliament yesterday to celebrate the launch of Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network. The new collective organisation was welcomed by Hon Peeni Henare Associate Minister of Health (Māori) as a “force for rural health.” Reflecting upon the […]

Kiwi farmers filling food banks 

June 29, 2022 by Simon Edwards

Kiwi farmers want no one in New Zealand to go hungry. They’re banding together to change the way we respond to food poverty.  A new nationwide partnership has been launched between Feed Out and Fonterra which aims to have 1 million litres of milk donated to food banks by dairy farmers within its first year. […]

Nathan Guy appointed Chairman of Meat Industry Association as John Loughlin steps down

June 27, 2022 by Cameron MacDuff

Media release – Meat Industry Association Former Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has been appointed the new Chairman of the Meat Industry Association following the retirement of current Chairman John Loughlin from the role. Mr Loughlin finishes his six-year term after the annual Red Meat Sector Conference in Christchurch on 31 July-1 August 2022. “It […]

Ki uta ki tai: NIWA’s role in mountains-to-sea estuarine management   

June 23, 2022 by Simon Edwards

NIWA is underway with work on better understanding communities’ aspirations for protecting estuaries, and the factors that weigh on estuarine health. Estuaries are coastal waterbodies where freshwater mixes with seawater. Many estuaries in Aotearoa New Zealand have been impacted by pollutants and contaminants entering via freshwater. Regional councils are developing coastal environmental plans to comply with […]

Futures Fund gets onside with cutting edge network technology company

June 23, 2022 by Simon Edwards

New Zealand-based Agritech company Onside has secured government co-investment of $4 million to expand and accelerate the development of its biosecurity technology.  Onside’s biosecurity software, Onside Intelligence (OSI), uses data from a range of sources and clever algorithms to construct an intricate rural network that’s able to map potential disease pathways and predict where incursions […]

New sheep shifting bylaw worries farmers

June 23, 2022 by Rebecca Flannery

Federated Farmers says a proposed new stock control bylaw from Tasman District Council will be impossible for farmers to comply with. Federated Farmers Nelson provincial president Stephen Todd says the proposal for farmers to hold sheep 50 metres back from a road while they are shifting stock until all cars have driven past, could end […]

Don’t kid yourself that going meat free helps the planet

June 23, 2022 by Rebecca Flannery

I think everyone gets their back up a bit when they see or hear ill-informed and incorrect comments thrown around.  This is why I am sick of hearing and seeing throw-away statements from people (who often should know better) about the supposed benefits to the globe of meat-free days, or a meat-free diet.  This time, […]

Revisiting the great exploding trousers epidemic of the 1930s

June 22, 2022 by Laura Williamson

By Laura Williamson, editor/co-founder of 1964: mountain culture/Aotearoa It was strange behaviour for a “quite respectable garment”, according to the Hutt News, “Not long ago, in a country township, a man’s pair of trousers exploded with a loud report.”  Fortunately, he wasn’t wearing them at the time and was able to throw the offending pants […]

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