by admin | Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
81 per cent of teenagers living in NZ’s cities and regional towns know “little” or “nothing at all” about farming and food production. A new survey of teenagers commissioned by Rabobank also revealed eight per cent of urban teenagers surveyed...
by admin | Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
April is looking set to be one full of great programming for your entertainment, from behind the scenes footage at Horse of the Year and competition classes, through to fishing, gardening and cheese – yup that is right – cheese. We kick off...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Farmers are grumpy about weather forecasters getting it wrong. From early last year some forecasters were talking up the impending El Nino Summer and its possible effects. A notable exception I am pleased to say was our supplier, Weather Watch dot co dot nz. ...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Fonterra has cut its dairy payout forecast, after the milk price dropped from $4.15 to $3.90 per kilo of solids. Chair John Wilson says difficult conditions in the GDT market had put further pressure on the forecast. With price drops in four of the last five...
by admin | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mark Leishman interviews Hugh Norriss from Farmstron this week on Point of View, Friday 11th March at 7:30pm. Farmstrong is a non-commercial give back initiative which has been founded by rural insurer FMG and the Mental Health Foundation (MHF). The Movember...
