16 November 2020
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft a-gley” – Robbie Burns
2019 was to be the final year of our long-running project supporting Amlaku’s village of Baregota in rural Ethiopia. The village now no longer needs our support.
4 November 2020
Having a world-class agricultural sector is vital to New Zealand’s success. In a year none of us saw coming, with covid-19 alert levels and lockdowns, our primary industries have continued to help feed the world and bring much-needed income into the NZ economy.
4 November 2020
Has the Green Party gifted the wool industry the lifeline it needs?
In 2008, a dreadlocked Nandor Tanczos brought the Waste Minimisation Act through Parliament, a piece of legislation which has transformed the landfill and recycling industries in New Zealand.
4 November 2020
It's now a common expectation of farmers in New Zealand to demonstrate adaptability, innovation and best practice.
And, it’s now well-known that farmers must have the skills of business executives to biologists, engineers to economists and veterinarians to policy analysts too.
19 October 2020
I grew up during rapid changes in farming techniques from Blue Stone drenching of sheep for parasite control to anthelmintics, rubber rings for animal castration and tail removal. The wool boom of the late forties and fifties led to dramatic changes in farming practice such as the application of fertiliser by Tiger Moth biplanes, which could only carry a eight-hundred weight payload.
12 October 2020
In the last of the three-part series about soil carbon, Dr Paul Mudge from Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research looks at data gathering under way at different scales to increase knowledge of New Zealand’s soil carbon stocks and how they’re changing with time.
28 September 2020
In the first of three articles about soil carbon, Prof Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato explains why soil carbon matters to farmers, what influences it and what we currently know about carbon stocks in New Zealand’s pastoral soils.
23 September 2020
While farming hasn’t been hit by covid-19 in the same way the retail, hospitality or tourism industries have, it’s obvious things are anything but business as usual.
14 September 2020
I reply to your opinion writer Alan Emerson regarding my knowledge of vets.
My father was a large animal vet and was second in command of the practice which had seven to 10 vets.
7 September 2020
Uncertainty is everywhere.
Many industries and sectors are reeling from the dramatic impact of covid-19. Strategists are out in force helping business owners and executives work out the ‘where to next?’.
