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Commitment needed to promote goats

Garrick Batten believes that NZ now has the potential goat meat production base that needs commitment to supply, as well as coordinated and innovative marketing.

Hill country farmers cannot ignore the goat meat market opportunities such as in North America, according to goat farming expert Garrick Batten. He outlines why in the third of his three part series on the topic.

Land sales, CO2 credits boost Pāmu

Pamu chief executive Mark Leslie says the result reflected good product prices and steady revenue growth across the business.

State farmer Landcorp (Pāmu) has returned a solid profit for the year ended June 2022, but says rising costs, weather and Covid disruptions are putting pressure on its bottom line.

Seeka's six months of pain

Seeka chief executive Michael Franks says Covid, labour shortage, low fruit volumes and unfavourable weather all dented its half-year results.

A tough six months means produce company Seeka won’t pay an interim dividend to shareholders.

Collaboration through cultural connection

Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger and recently departed Irish ambassador to NZ Peter Ryan both attended the recent Irish Business Network of NZ function.

A new report seeks to grow business opportunities between Ireland and Māori based on the similarities of their respective cultures.

ANZ to offer 'green' loans

ANZ New Zealand business banking managing director Lorraine Mapu says the new loans are about supporting New Zealand businesses and their sustainability ambitions.

ANZ is the latest bank to announce a new ‘Green Loan’ for its business and agribusiness customers.

Rush to sort quality issues

Zespri says there are several contributing factors to the decline in fruit quality, but the drastic lack of skilled people to harvest and pack kiwifruit has been a key factor.

Zespri is in the midst of a major and hastily convened review to find out about the sudden drop in the quality of SunGold kiwifruit during the past season.

Growing farming's future

Outgoing GFF general manager Cyn Smith has been instrumental in the GFF programme’s success.

A programme providing school leavers with a viable career option in agriculture has seen student numbers soar in recent years.

Health students spread the word in rural schools

HTRHN chief executive Grant Davidson says a strategy is needed to attract health workers in rural areas.

During September, 30 tertiary health students will be spreading the word about rural health careers to 33 rural schools throughout the country.

Moving more with less impact

Silver Fern Farms’ Dan Boulton says the technology has led to improvements in the efficiency of the meat company’s livestock transport.

Meat processor Silver Fern Farms is moving more animals over fewer kilometres, thanks to a digital real-time transport management system.

What the 'F' is going on?

Rabobank’s Emma Higgins says farmer margins are likely to remain under intense pressure for at least the next 12-months.

Rabobank's Emma Higgins recently outlined some of the current headaches facing the agriculture sector.

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