Federated Farmers wants migrant workers on Govts COVID exemption A-list: Auckland officials are emphasising the economic benefits of letting in Americas Cup crews, but farmers feel theyre being left off the A-list. A new #Kale crop for these girls and another beautiful winters day on the #FernFlats. Detector dogs could sniff out AFB and save beekeepers millions of dollars: Training dogs to sniff out the highly infectious bacterial disease American Foulbrood (AFB) in beehives could save New Zealands beekeeping industry several million dollars a year. . The passion and commitment to their chosen careers has seen Queenslander Shannon Landmark and the NTs Luke Evans offered a unique mentoring opportunity under the Zanda McDonald Award, which recognises outstanding young professionals in the ag sector. "I don't really have any health concerns," said one fan, who gave his name as Peter told AFP.Another spectator, Wendy, said she feared New Zealand would have stayed locked down longer "but I'm happy that we're not. . Fine skies and good vibes are greeting farmers on day two of Fieldays in Hamilton.Bad weather and flooding prevented some farmers from making it to Mystery Creek for the first day yesterday.The Country's Rowena Duncum told Andrew Dickens the crowds are bigger today. Dr Hay told Saturday Morning that the disease was very hard to diagnose, and in many other countries it was only detected after it had already been spreading for several decades . Rowena Duncum is a passionate advocate for the agricultural and rural sectors. Leave a Comment | business, environment, Farming, food, rural | Tagged: Allan Lill, Dr Frank Mitloehner, Earle Wright, Farm Debt Mediation Bill (No 2), Federated Farmers, Gray Baldwin, Jessica Johnston, Luke Evans, Marilyn Baldwin, Rowena Duncum, Shannon Landmark, sharemilkers, Speak Up, Will to Live, Zanda McDonald Award | Permalink Regtien, aged 25, won a DairyNZ undergraduate scholarship that helped him get his Bachelor of Agricultural Science. Not only is it my middle name (albeit spelt slightly differently Mae), but it's synonymous with two of my favourite things in the whole world. Kelso had been a 185ha dairy grazing farm before we converted it. Nobody's wearing masks, it's good".South Africa broadcaster Kaunda Ntunja tweeted: "Watching live rugby with a crowd at the stadium is something I didnt think I would see anytime soon. Overseas investors fined almost $3 million for illegal purchase of Auckland properties: The High Court yesterday ordered the overseas owners of two rural properties at Warkworth, north of Auckland, to pay $2.95 million to the Crown after an Overseas Investment Office (OIO) investigation found they were bought without consent. Shes also Chair of Women in Sport Otago, on the Board of the NZ Boot Throwing Association (again, this is a thing!) pic.twitter.com/yh3uycqgm8, Rowena Duncum (@rowie_nz) January 14, 2021, Megan whitehead on her way to setting a new world shearing record. Falling log prices may make some woodlots unprofitable ANZ -Rebecca Howard. Did I want to go fishing, Nate Smith asked from the wheelhouse of his boat Gravity. OPINION: A new report controversially claims exploitative and "underhand" marketing of formula milk is preventing millions of women from breastfeeding,. . Second place in the Taranaki farm manager contest went to New Plymouth contract milkers Sergio Valverde-Nandin and Kaelee Alexander, who won $2400. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. Two weeks after returning home to Scotland, she knew she wanted to come back. The countrys plan is to use trees to sequester carbon dioxide over the next 30 years while it finds ways to reduce emissions from our other main pollutant sources: transport, buildings, energy and agriculture. #IRWD2020 #daughtersinag #familyfarming pic.twitter.com/iANgAKR1my, Janelle South (@JanelleSmith251) October 15, 2020, Happy international rural womens Day. Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Fieldays 2022 is currently underway. "Taiwan's professional baseball league began allowing a very limited number of fans into games in May, but loosened restrictions last weekend after the government eased coronavirus measures. This has made everything "final" in my opinion. All young stock, silage and crops have always been done on the platform, apart from a couple of extreme cases. Theyre fishing for the future Neal Wallace: The desire to remove the ticket-clipping middlemen is not confined to dairy and meat farmers wanting to get closer to their markets and earn higher prices. I think it's really important to lift people's mood a little bit. Forestry New Zealand figures show in the first year, of the 91m trees planted, only 12 percent were native. Latest technology to be demonstrated at the Horticulture Conference 2019: Technology that will help fruit and vegetable growers now and in the future will be demonstrated at Our Food Future, the Horticulture Conference 2019 between 31 July and 2 August at Mystery Creek, Hamilton. This years Fieldays has had five and a half months of extra buildup, as it was delayed to avoid the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. We use slurry from our barn to fertilise the land and make both grass and cereal silage from it. pic.twitter.com/ttoPCjRfHx, William Morrison (@MorrisonFarming) August 5, 2020. The build seemed to take longer than it should have. We got here through hard work (very hard work) and dedication. While the U.N. report pointed out that cattle and other animals do indeed produce the greenhouse gas methane no secret there he says the U.N. and special friends such as anti-animal agriculture activists and vegan promoters leave out important facts. Posted by homepaddock. Because we went from 180 to 300 cows and Ayrshires were hard to come by, we had to buy a few budget cows. Rowena Duncum: Fine skies greeting farmers on day two of Fieldays in Hamilton. Breakfeed: Using social media to effectively tell our story, with Rowena Duncum and Ben Dooley, Scene + Herd: Podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand. So incredibly proud of our Allflex New Zealand World Shearing and Woolhandling team. I don't think Pita Pit with falafel every meal's gonna cut it.Above all else, the biggest fear I have is the embarrassment of failing by simply forgetting. Rowena Duncum gives voice to the high and lows, hard work, love and dedication of all farmers through the story of one farmer, Bruce Eade, as he celebrates 25 years on his farm. So that's a small insight into our journey over the past 25 years. After waffling on about my lifes achievements (current runner-up, womens world gumboot throwing, thank-you-very-much!) A sector-wide initiative by Federated Farmers, DairyNZ, Dairy Womens Network and NZ Young Farmers it was launched last month . We would start milking at 1pm and get home about 7pm. Visa uncertainty threatens farm crisis Richard Harman: The Government is considering extending temporary work visas due to expire over the next few months so that essential businesses do not lose semi-skilled workers. The atmosphere now contains 409 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO), when it is claimed that it can only cope with 350 ppm without a change in climate. But there are big questions about why it wont announce that it is doing so. He grew up in Decatur and was a graduate of Decatur High School, and then Abilene Christian University in 2014. In fact, the build was so late we ended up milking 70 heifers on a two-cow plant in the hay shed. "It's a world first and its a payoff for all the hard work of 5 million New Zealanders. This button displays the currently selected search type. . . David Surveyor, chief executive of Alliance Group, said energy requirements were sourced across a range of fuels. While some price softening is not unusual at this time of year as construction activity slows in the hot months, the scale of the correction was unexpected, said ANZ agriculture economist Susan Kilsby. I can already picture walking past on my way to the studio and oh so casually, popping a savoury in my mouth.I'll be taking bets on how long I'll last at this folly. Five years later, she is in her first year managing the 290ha Cottesbrook Farm for Mr Haugh. We expect to find more infected herds as we actively look for those final pockets of infection, so we all need to remain vigilant. . This time to MC the Southern North Island Wood Council Awards and I'll let you in on a little secret.The best part of being an MC is the incredible food you are served up at functions. Hey government lets K.I.S.S. Thats the question Newshub reporter Michael Morrah has been trying to solve since National decided they were a good idea and promised to introduce them in 2016. If the forestry strategy fails, we will need a more aggressive approach to meeting carbon zero by 2050 something consultancy EY calculated in 2018 would cost the country $30 billion. I. New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries, COVID Recovery: Building Resilience into Export and Supply Chain Strategies - moderator, COVID Recovery: Building Resilience into Export and Supply Chain Strategies - panellist. The Zimmatic Trailblazer Sustainable Irrigation Awards aim to celebrate excellence in sustainable irrigation. I felt like theres so much negativity out there aimed at farmers. Golden Gumboot leads to Fieldays love for rural bachelor. Rug pulled from under trophy hunt operations Yvonne OHara: Leithen Valley Hunts owner Rachel Stewart has had no clients and no income since New Zealands borders were closed. She spent days in the hay shed, with us carting feed and water to her, lifting her and such like, but to no avail. Surely being inclusive asSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Back in 1987, Rachels parents Barbara and Louis Kuriger won the Taranaki Sharemilker of the Year title. Just last month I had a bad day. iHeartRadio app. Ok here it is. We were only the third dairy farm in the district, and we paid $1 million for the farm, which was a lot of money back then. It has undoubtedly been the right move for us, as the future of farming constantly changes. Out of 6 world titles, theyre coming home with three of them! Fiona Thomas and Libby Ogle have started their very own mobile library each month ferrying a load of books to two isolated primary schools in the Ruapehu District. One billion tree flawed says climate scientist: The Forestry Minister Shane Jones one billion trees wont reduce carbon emissions, as too few natives are being planted, climate scientist Jim Salinger says. Dismantling free markets wont solve biodiversity threat Matt Ridley: Driven perhaps by envy at the attention that climate change is getting, and ambition to set up a great new intergovernmental body that can fly scientists to mega-conferences, biologists have gone into overdrive on the subject of biodiversity this week. A former dairy farmer and 2013 Taranaki Farm Manager of the Year, she hung up the milking apron and swapped her red bands for radio in 2016 to become Executive Producer of The Country NZMEs long-standing rural radio show, hosted by Jamie Mackay. POLITIK understands that around 70,000 temporary work visas are due to expire by the end of September. From the outset, Alliance has been clear we would only use the wage subsidy in the way it was intended by government and our previous repayments reflect this commitment, chairman Murray Taggart said in a statement. Ruapehu rural reading scheme spells out a winning idea Katie Doyle: A pair of librarians from the central North Island town of Taumarunui are bringing a love of reading to rural school children. They seemed to enjoy the camaraderie that went with the role, often meeting up with sheep farming colleagues from across the country who also did the rounds of the shows. At 8 am today the gates open for Fieldays 2022. In a former life, Rowena was a dairy farmer, and won the 2013 Taranaki Farm Manager of the Year,She has since hung up the milking apron and swapped her red bands for radio in 2016- becoming Executive Producer of The Country. 5mins 31 Jan 2021 Rowena Duncum Megan Whitehead Similar People Judith Collins Julia Jones David Stevens Simon Bridges Winston Peters Matt Chisholm Bernadette Hunt Ben Dooley Jason Walls Barry Soper Elliot Smith John Key Jamie MacKay Aaron Dahmen Food envy could be the undoing of me.Another factor that could come into play this month, is my utter lack of vegetarian cooking skills. As Programme partners, MPI, DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb New Zealand are working together to support affected farmers through this eradication programme. We are particularly excited to delve into her thoughts on her rural experiences, social media, and how we can create a thriving online community here in AotearoaIf you enjoyed this episode, feel free to visit our Instagram, Facebook, and website, or even become a member! . . . The couple hope to raise their equity stake to 100%, to maintain an environmentally sustainable farm and to get time off from the farm. In addition to this, WPMA has just launched its Environmental Product Declarations for wood products. . An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. A while ago I wrote an article about farming partnerships as part of our 'People that farm' series. Cost should not shut borrower out of mediation sharemilkers say: The Sharemilkers Section of Federated Farmers strongly supports the Farm Debt Mediation Bill (No 2) but would like to see changes to ensure a borrower isnt shut out of the process because they cant afford it. We went from milking 180 cows through a 12-aside herringbone (ASHB) all year round at our old farm at Tisbury, south of Invercargill, to milking 300 through a 30 ASHB in the first year at Kelso. GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins stealth revolution in education, "I find the virtual hostility to Zelenskyy incredibly disturbing. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Break Feed: Farmer to commentator, with Rowena Duncum, Rowena is proud to be the producer of The Country, the longest running rural radio show in New Zealand. "Everyone has been dying for this moment," he told AP. Not to mention our love for the pedigree Ayrshire cow, and later the pedigree Holstein cow. It was heart-wrenching to let our staff go, as we are a tight team. Heres a few gentle correctives. Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you. I've driven past the original farm a few times and thought how different things would have been if we'd ended up there. . The odds for me failing by Thursday May 24th just shortened dramatically.P.P.S. Along with pushing the buttons to take the show to air at midday each weekday, she also contributes to the shows direction, hunts down people for interviews and tries to keep the shows host Jamie Mackay in line as NZs champion cow-pat thrower and the 2nd best gumboot thrower in the world, shes more than qualified. . Comment: Rowena Duncum gives voice to the high and lows, hard work, love and dedication of all farmers through the story of one farmer, Bruce Eade, as he celebrates 25 years on his farm. Uncertainty plus unique ownership structure drive Fonterra share volatility Keith Woodford: Fonterras shares have been on a steady downward slide for the last 18 months. #NFCalving19 pic.twitter.com/bJkxmZEbIr, Newland Farm (@newlandfarm) June 28, 2019. . It makes it relatable. How is the situation in Chinaimpacting our primary exporters? . Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand As farmers and growers, social media is useful to tell our stories and also to interact with the general public and urban counterparts. "I don't think anyone has yet replicated that sense of excitement of being in a crowd, and the passions that flow from that," he said. A farmers tale: 25 years of highs and lows Rowena Duncan: Rowena Duncum gives voice to the high and lows, hard work, love and dedication of all farmers through the story of one farmer, Bruce Eade, as he celebrates 25 years on his farm. There was also an interview. For years, we have known that our climate is changing droughts are getting more severe however, red tape and a lack of capital has seen most parts of New Zealand slow to do anything practical about the situation. The contract has been the subject of much discussion at sale yards but Young said it is not an offer being made to every farmer. We lost a LOT of cows that spring. Dad and I had to roll her onto the tractor tray to get her inside. . Whenua Ora Tangata Ora is a joint partnership between FOMA Innovation, the science and technology arm of the Federation of Mori Authorities (FOMA); Soil Connection, biological farming and soil health experts; and Toha, an environmental impact platform that recently launched Calm The Farm to support farmers to reduce their environmental and climate impacts while improving financial resilience. 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