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Farmers Weekly PodcastThe Farmers Weekly Podcast covers the big issues in the food and fibre sector. Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/ editorial team and the newsmakers they report on.... Author: AgriHQ
The Farmers Weekly Podcast covers the big issues in the food and fibre sector.Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the Farmers Weekly editorial team and the newsmakers they report on.Its rich farming news for time-poor farmers. Language: en Genres: Business News, News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Full Show | July 11
Thursday, 10 July, 2025
In this episode: News Wrap | Emissions reduction and the profitable farm1:48 – DairyNZ head of data science and modelling Mark Neal tells Bryan about a newly released study that shows any farm in any region can be profitable and emissions efficient. The study drew on data from DairyNZ, Dairybase, Fonterra and LIC.Feature | Agroecology coach favours relationships over recipes7:56 – Nicole Masters, an agroecology coach, reckons that if we’re going to improve environmental outcomes we need to stop focusing on data and rules and instead look to relationships and values. Masters says farmers tend to use intuition when making big decisions, rather than relying on facts and figures.Feds Focus | Richard Dawkins takes on sheep and beef challenge20:58 – We catch up with Federated Farmers meat and wool chair Richard Dawkins, a Marlborough farmer who was voted onto the national executive a few weeks ago. Richard talks about his farming life and what the meat and wool executive has planned for the months ahead.The Final Word29:15 – Nuffield scholar Hugh Ritchie has some advice for today’s farmers – look up and look out. He says there’s plenty of innovation out there that could transform NZ farm systems, if we’re willing to find it.