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Farmers learning from other farmers

Farmers learn best from other farmers who have actually done it, says Extension 350 chairman Ken Hames.

Time to own it — Editorial

The immediacy of social media ensured that many dairy farmers shared in real time the horror of watching yet another PR disaster unfold on TV One’s Sunday programme last week.

Backwater?

Your canine crusader often hears claims that South Island’s West Coast is a backwater and behind the times.

Your old mate has no time for the multinational, tax dodging, political activist group Greenpeace, which spends most of its time and funds in this country telling half-truths and inaccuracies and smearing the farming sector.

Can't count

It must be election year, because the Hound notes wiley old Winston is cranking up his usual anti-Chinese crap.

Zespri plans aggressive marketing

Zespri says it will spend $150 million marketing NZ kiwifruit around the world this year.

Zespri will keep spending aggressively on marketing this year, says Jiunn Shih, the new global general manager marketing.

NZ farmers are making gains in the environment

Nathan Guy says any rules must have the farmer at the centre of it.

Today we live in an age when consumers are growing more aware of the products they consume.

SI achievers aiming for excellence

The 2016 South Island Farmers of the Year, Neil and Lyn Campbell, tell their story at the winner’s field day presentation held at the Fairlie Community Hall. Photo: Rural News Group

Merely being in the top 10% of meat producers was not enough for the 2016 Lincoln University Foundation South Island Farmers of the Year, Neil and Lyn Campbell.

The Loe-down on farm safety

Worksafe New Zealand Safer Farms ambassador Richard Loe with Worksafe inspector Tiffany Boyle at the Worksafe stand at the 2017 South Island Agricultural Field Days at Kirwee.

Farmers who resent the attention of WorkSafe inspectors in their workplaces should remember that more people still die on NZ farms each year than are prosecuted for safety breaches.

No smoke without fire

Farmers say burning off is an environmental benign way of dealing with crop residues prior to sowing the next crop.

Farmers are hoping to retain the right to burn off crop residue under the new national Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) fire authority due to be set up mid-year.