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Successful rural resilience programmes receive MPI funding boost

May 12, 2022 by Cameron MacDuff

Ministry for Primary Industries – media release The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has renewed funding for two successful programmes training farmers, growers and other rural people to manage pressure and adapt to change.  The Agri-Women’s Development Trust (AWDT) has been allocated $339,000 to expand its popular ‘Know Your Mindset. Do What Matters’ and ‘Our Resilient […]

More youth funded into sheep and beef careers

October 18, 2021 by Bronwyn Wilson

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) have signed a funding agreement with the Growing Future Farmers (GFF) Essential Farm Skills Programme, helping attract and train more young people in the red meat sector. The GFF Programme offers a range of specialised industry training and development opportunities across the country including formal New Zealand Qualifications Authority […]

Miraka donated milk on the way to local foodbanks

August 2, 2021 by Bronwyn Wilson

Earlier this week Taupō-based dairy company Miraka processed over 20,000 litres of farmer-donated milk, which will be distributed to local foodbanks through farmer-founded charity Feed Out. The milk has been donated by Miraka farmers to provide direct local support to a growing number of families in need. Wayne Langford, Founder and General Manager of Feed […]

Ten reasons why we love to farm

March 1, 2021 by Simon Edwards

By Bernadette Hunt, Vice-President Federated Farmers Southland In the face of constant news about all the challenges farmers face, I’ve been asked several times lately why farmers do what we do.  So this morning, as I walked up and down the tractor lines of an oats paddock looking for weeds (one of arable farming’s more […]

Resilient Kiwi spirit kept agriculture strong through pandemic

December 21, 2020 by Leigh Catley

Kiwi ingenuity and a drive to “make it work” have been pivotal in New Zealand’s agriculture sector getting through the COVID-19 pandemic with relatively little impact, according to a new study by AgResearch and its partners. Farmers and others working in the agriculture and food systems in New Zealand and Australia were surveyed or interviewed […]

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EU approves methane-reducing feed additive Bovaer®

February 25, 2022 By Bronwyn Wilson

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