Rabbit rissoles for field day crowds
Rabbit rissoles with garlic and fennel will be the wild food treat used to lure visitors to the Northland Regional Council's marquee at Kaipara's upcoming Northland Field Days.
Farmers are among those being congratulated for Kerikeri’s Waipapa River being named the most improved river in Northland at the New Zealand River Awards 2016.
The awards, organised by the NZ Rivers Trust and Morgan Foundation, were determined this year by the monitored trend improvement in the macroinvertebrate community index (MCI), a valuable indicator of general river health.
The MCI for the Waipapa River showed an annual trend improvement of 4.7% over the past eight years at the monitoring site at Waipapa Landing.
Council chairman Bill Shepherd, who attended the November 3 Wellington awards, says there has been a steady change in land use along the lower reaches of the river, from orchards to lifestyle blocks. “A wide variety of riparian planting has resulted in more shading of the river and a contributed to a healthier water environment.”
Councillor Shepherd says a great deal of effort has been expended in recent years to protect and enhance the region’s fresh water resources by a wide range of people and organisations including landowners and farmers, local communities and industry groups, tangata whenua and local government.
He says with roughly half the work the regional council does being linked to fresh water in some way, it’s pleasing to see improvements in water quality and for these to be acknowledged in a positive way.
South Waikato farm manager Ben Purua’s amazing transformation from gang life to milking cows was rewarded with the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer award last night.
Bankers have been making record profits in the last few years, but those aren’t the only records they’ve been breaking, says Federated Farmers vice president Richard McIntyre.
The 2023-24 season has been a roller coaster ride for Waikato dairy farmers, according to Federated Farmers dairy section chair, Mathew Zonderop.
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) director general Ray Smith says job cuts announced this morning will not impact the way the Ministry is organised or merge business units.
Scales Corporation is acquiring a number of orchard assets from Bostock Group.
Family and solidarity shone through at the 75 years of Ferdon sale in Otorohanga last month.