. . pic.twitter.com/yh3uycqgm8, Rowena Duncum (@rowie_nz) January 14, 2021, Megan whitehead on her way to setting a new world shearing record. The WPMA Chair, Brian Stanley, says; no other major industry in New Zealand can deliver carbon sequestration, carbon storage and emissions reduction like the wood industry. Today we have Rowena Duncum joining us on the Podcast. . #nikon #snapbridge pic.twitter.com/DmT0xurrvs, Edwin Mabonga (@Edwinmab1) January 14, 2021, 1 Comment | Farming, rural, sport | Tagged: Edward Mabonga, Megan Whitehead, Rowena Duncum | Permalink Ryley and Mike say they will be keeping an eye on how the competitors fare this year. . Overseas investors fined almost $3 million for illegal purchase of Auckland properties: The High Court yesterday ordered the overseas owners of two rural properties at Warkworth, north of Auckland, to pay $2.95 million to the Crown after an Overseas Investment Office (OIO) investigation found they were bought without consent. . "Dancing, partying. . 2.1K views, 18 likes, 0 loves, 5 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Country: The Country at Fieldays - Rowena Duncum caught up with DeLaval Oceania Sales Director Justin Thompson to. The Taranaki region was the first to hold a regional sharemilker competition and in 1990 the competition became nationwide. The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved an application to import a new fungicide, Vimoy Iblon, into New Zealand, for use on cereal crops. Federated Farmers wants migrant workers on Govts COVID exemption A-list: Auckland officials are emphasising the economic benefits of letting in Americas Cup crews, but farmers feel theyre being left off the A-list. . The other major winners were Michael Kavanagh and Rowena Duncum, the region's Farm Managers of the Year, and Daniel Regtien, the 2013 Taranaki Dairy Trainee of the Year. Is National's proposed water reform enough? Over 65% of our exports come from agricultural food production and we produce it with a lower carbon footprint than any other country in the world. She swapped her red bands for radio and has been the executive producer of The COuntry since 2016. I think it's really important to lift people's mood a little bit. Blurred lines between animal welfare and animal ethics Shan Goodwin: ONE of the key elements of animal welfare science commonly misunderstood is that it is the animals perception of its conditions that counts, not those of humans. Andrew Hoggard, Sandra Matthews, Jane Smith, Steve Hollander, Chris Russell. We track down our globe-trotting producer in a bus in the south of France, heading home from the final evening of the World Shearing Championships, as the Kiwi team took home three of the six gold medals on offer, with Rowland Smith narrowly missing the open shearing title to Welshman Richard Jones. All rights reserved, Disclaimer | Terms & Conditions | Contact. I. One of our strengths is being able to control the cost of production, so we can achieve a system that is profitable and sustainable at all payouts, she says. Pre-tax profit was up 36 percent at $5 million. Farming is character building to say the least, but I wouldn't change a thing. It had budgeted capital expenditure of $60 million-$70 million for the transition, it told a select committee hearing on the Zero Carbon Bill in Dunedin yesterday. There was also an interview. Back in 1987, Rachels parents Barbara and Louis Kuriger won the Taranaki Sharemilker of the Year title. There were four contestants competing in total, the other two being Brigitte Allan from Pyramid Valley and Lucas Percy from Pegasus Bay, who gave it their all, making it a great competition. When I uprooted my life and moved to Dunedin in January, the first thing I did was book flights home for duck shooting.Our maimai has a name 'The Hilton,' a working fireplace (not to be used on cloudless days), and the boys constructed it from scratch from an old bus shelter. The countrys plan is to use trees to sequester carbon dioxide over the next 30 years while it finds ways to reduce emissions from our other main pollutant sources: transport, buildings, energy and agriculture. . . Fonterras CEO for Asia Pacific told The Country Early Editions Rowena Duncum that Covid-19 restrictions had forced the co-op to rethink its approach to customers. In addition to this, WPMA has just launched its Environmental Product Declarations for wood products. . So incredibly proud of our Allflex New Zealand World Shearing and Woolhandling team. . New Zealand Wood Industry Zero Carbon And We Can Prove It: If New Zealands ambition is to be a zero carbon economy by 2050 then it must nurture its wood industry. On behalf of Mark and Michelle Hammond of Herekino, Carrfields Livestock held the sale of a Hereford beef herd that put 50 years of top-quality genetics under the hammer, the animals grazing land destined for pine trees. Interesting reading in the 2022 Farm Salaries Report from Fed Farmers and Rabobank It's the 30th anniversary of The Country this year. And calving. M Bovis research to look at milk yield impact Maja Burry: The Ministry for Primary Industries is commissioning new research into the impacts of Mycoplasma bovis on cattle in New Zealand. . It's not just a child getting the sniffles, it is a very, very serious disease. Those in the industry can learn from it, or it could be inspirational for someone interested in agriculture. First World Champs Final Blade Teams. Rowena Duncum: Producer of The Country on the International Dairy Foundation's world summit September 20, 2022 3 min New Zealand's Dairy Industry Leaders have been attending the International Dairy Foundation's World Dairy Summit in India last week. . Sheep grazing a #CoverCrop on the Canterbury Plains ahead of a spring seed crop pic.twitter.com/K0AvgRPolz, Allan Lill (@allan_lill) August 22, 2019. The build seemed to take longer than it should have. Not to mention our love for the pedigree Ayrshire cow, and later the pedigree Holstein cow. . Thanks to the rural women who work tirelessly on the land, in the home or office, front & centre or behind scenes, in community or advocacy groups, in leadership, governance & training roles. and my role with The Country, I fielded a question around how farmers can effectively communicate with urban dwellers. Photo / Waipa Post. Rowena Duncum joins Andrew Dickens to talk about duck shooting as the hunting season gets underway.It'll be the first season since the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15.Duncum says the season overall shouldn't be affected too much by the attacks, but a few things have been noted. The overseas owners Chinese businessmen Zhongliang Hong and Xueli Ke, and IRL Investment Limited and Grand Energetic Company Limited should have applied to the OIO for consent to buy both properties because they are rural land of more than five hectares. . A lot of maimais don't allow female shooters, let alone temporarily vegetarian ones.But that's not going to be the only challenge this month. Surely being inclusive asSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Some in the extreme for opposing sides of the spectrum. Its about how we adapt to customers and consumers Swales said. Second place in the Taranaki farm manager contest went to New Plymouth contract milkers Sergio Valverde-Nandin and Kaelee Alexander, who won $2400. Dismantling free markets wont solve biodiversity threat Matt Ridley: Driven perhaps by envy at the attention that climate change is getting, and ambition to set up a great new intergovernmental body that can fly scientists to mega-conferences, biologists have gone into overdrive on the subject of biodiversity this week. Short spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay and Rowena Duncum about his first encounter with Ryley McGougan saying the timing wasn't perfect, but it all worked out in the end. "I don't think anyone has yet replicated that sense of excitement of being in a crowd, and the passions that flow from that," he said. Technology helps Southland farmers replacement heifers hit weight targets : Investing in weigh scales is helping Southland dairy farmers Julia and Stewart Eden grow bigger heifers which produce more milk. A great portion of New Zealand's economy hinges upon meat consumption. Fiona Thomas and Libby Ogle have started their very own mobile library each month ferrying a load of books to two isolated primary schools in the Ruapehu District. Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you. Rowena was a dairy farmer and won the Taranaki Farm Manager of the Year. Just last month I had a bad day. . 'My chance to walk in someone else's shoes and attempt to understand their ideals and values,' I explained to our urban listening audience. Posted by homepaddock. Want to get our weekly e-diary or receive other essential updates? The Country from Newstalk ZB, Hokonui and Gold Sport. Our cowshed was built by Waikato Dairy Builders. : Gray Baldwin has spent five years undoing work his grandfather did on the familys South Waikato farm and hes thrilled with the result. . That's something I could really get behind. A former dairy farmer and 2013 Taranaki Farm Manager of the Year, she hung up the milking apron and swapped her. Sometime in the early 2000s we extended the 30 ASHB to 40. Time to stop shaming farmers Rowena Duncan: The recent Will to Live Tour gets The Country Early Edition host Rowena Duncum thinking about rural mental health. Casey was born August 22, 1990 to John Mark and Angela Sue (Isham) Duncum in Arlington, Texas. . . Kelso had been a 185ha dairy grazing farm before we converted it. Row breaks down the incredible performance by Megan Whitehead at the Grant Brother's Woolshed. Detector dogs could sniff out AFB and save beekeepers millions of dollars: Training dogs to sniff out the highly infectious bacterial disease American Foulbrood (AFB) in beehives could save New Zealands beekeeping industry several million dollars a year. As I reached adulthood and became a farmer myself, I loved being on the other side of the fence hosting friends and family as they came to visit, bringing their own budding farmers to see the animals or milking. So often we just see the end result and don't understand what it took to get there, so I want to share Bruce's story with you. Along with pushing the buttons to take the show to air at midday each weekday, she also contributes to the shows direction, hunts down people for interviews and tries to keep the shows host Jamie Mackay inline as NZs champion cow-pat thrower and the 2nd best gumboot thrower in the world, shes more than qualified. At 8 am today the gates open for Fieldays 2022. It is only available to loyal clients, farmers who have shown Affco consistent support. "Craziness," is how 20-year-old student Charlotte Power described the scene. Sunset last night. Producer of the Country Rowena Duncum joined Heather du Plessis-Allan. Twenty-five years ago, we moved to our current farm. The Zimmatic Trailblazer Sustainable Irrigation Awards aim to celebrate excellence in sustainable irrigation. Buxton Trout & Salmon, which lays claim to being Australias first commercial trout farm, sits astride the Acheron River near Marysville. Thousands of free-range chooks have been able to keep on laying rather than getting laid off due to lockdown. We would start milking at 1pm and get home about 7pm. All young stock, silage and crops have always been done on the platform, apart from a couple of extreme cases. Global meat production from 1961 to 2018 from UN FAO: https://t.co/E1ZHAWHxhc, % growth over that time:Beef +143%Chicken +1412%Goat +442%Pork +388%Mutton/lamb +99%Turkey +557%, The human population has grown 142% over the same time pic.twitter.com/CUR7NrRVV0, Sara Place (@drsplace) December 21, 2020. The Shorts and Kurigers are now farming in partnership, with the Shorts 20% equity partners and 25% variable order sharemilking 450 cows for Shortland Farm Ltd Partnership at Opunake. New life-members for North Otago A&P Sally Brooker: The North Otago A&P Association has two new life members. The coming weeks will tell if the Government has given up or is committed to making that policy a success by backing it with its procurement. So, farmers generally should not raise their hopes it signals prices higher that they might usually expect as the season unfolds. Opunake contract milkers Michael Kavanagh and Rowena Duncum won the 2013 Taranaki Farm Managers of the Year title and have set their sights on moving up the dairy farming ladder. . It has undoubtedly been the right move for us, as the future of farming constantly changes. Farmers stocking dams with trout the latest diversification for Buxton Trout & Salmon after coronavirus hits tourism Marian Macdonald: First, rising water temperatures cut production in half, now, as the coronavirus slices 80 per cent off his income, land-based farmers are helping to keep a Yarra Valley fish farmer afloat. Rachel Short began farming in 2004, with Kenneth Short joining her in 2007 while keeping on in building until 2010. Here we are one week on from the big water policy announcement and I dont see that abating anytime soon. . When the zig-zag went in the herringbone, we had the two-cow plant in a wheelbarrow in the pit and thought it was heaven! Those in the industry can learn from it, or it could be inspirational for someone interested in agriculture. He was its president in 2000 and nowadays is convener of the sheep section. Whenua Ora Tangata Ora is a joint partnership between FOMA Innovation, the science and technology arm of the Federation of Mori Authorities (FOMA); Soil Connection, biological farming and soil health experts; and Toha, an environmental impact platform that recently launched Calm The Farm to support farmers to reduce their environmental and climate impacts while improving financial resilience. . Leave a Comment | business, environment, Farming, food, rural | Tagged: a2 Milk Company, Alliance Group, American foulbrood (AFB), Dr David Beggs, Geoff Babidge, Mataura Valley Milk (MVM), Melbourne University, Murray Taggart, RawAg, Rowena Duncum, Sara Place, Shan Goodwin, Sustainable Food & Fibre Futures (SFF Futures) | Permalink After waffling on about my life's "achievements" (current runner-up, women's world gumboot throwing, thank-you-very-much!) Levin and Dannevirke operate on natural gas, Nelson utilises diesel, while Smithfield in Timaru, Pukeuri in Oamaru and Mataura and Lorneville in Southland use coal. . . Fonterra is also now in asset-selling mode to strengthen its balance sheet. They call one section of the stadium The Zoo, and it's easy to see why: thousands of university students in team colours standing on their seats, steadying trays of beer, swaying to music and erupting with joy when their team scores. "I don't really have any health concerns," said one fan, who gave his name as Peter told AFP.Another spectator, Wendy, said she feared New Zealand would have stayed locked down longer "but I'm happy that we're not. . It's a thing of beauty,a well cut and raked paddock pic.twitter.com/36wol3dv24, Bruce (@fairleigh_ag) March 5, 2020. Congratulations to Lacey Agate from Bellbird Spring: After a tough day in the vineyards Lacey Agate from Bellbird Spring became the Corteva North Young Viticulturist of the Year 2020 on 31st July following the competition held at Greystone in Waipara. Every time. Food envy could be the undoing of me.Another factor that could come into play this month, is my utter lack of vegetarian cooking skills. I don't think Pita Pit with falafel every meal's gonna cut it.Above all else, the biggest fear I have is the embarrassment of failing by simply forgetting. But he was willing to take the chance.German exchange student Johanna Lindner said she'd never watched a rugby match before, and people back home were both curious and perhaps a little envious. We were only the third dairy farm in the district, and we paid $1 million for the farm, which was a lot of money back then. Shes also Chair of Women in Sport Otago, on the Board of the NZ Boot Throwing Association (again, this is a thing!) . It makes it real. A while ago I wrote an article about farming partnerships as part of our 'People that farm' series. Being a grass-based system, use of pasture is a key to high profits.. Cow numbers increased slightly over the years to our current 540-550 herd. THE 2013 Taranaki Sharemilker/Equity Farmers of the Year, Rachel and Kenneth Short, have become the first family to claim two generations of success in the awards. www.ruralwomennz.nz. . "You've got to think of the impact on the cows, the impact on the farmers, there's economic impacts here if the cows are aborting their calves. New Zealand 241 followers 236 connections Join to view profile NZME. Alliance Group, the countrys second-largest meat exporter and largest lamb processor, confirmed it would be ending the use of coal at all of its seven plants within 10 years and was at present examining other fuel options across its network. Follow her on Twitter, her handle is: @rowie_nz, Rowena Duncum on the World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs. One example was a trend that had popped up in Korea creating new recipes for the garlic cream cheese bun. A day or so later, I came across West Otago farmer Bruce Eade sharing the steps he and his family took in celebrating a milestone on farm. GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins stealth revolution in education, "I find the virtual hostility to Zelenskyy incredibly disturbing. Leave a Comment | environment, Farming, food, horticulture, rural, technology, trade, viticulture | Tagged: Allan Oldfield, Annette Scott, Bayer Marlborough Young Viticulturist of the Year, Ben Richards, Blue Sky Meats, Carrfields Livestock, Constellation, Dan Warman, Fiona Thomas, Horticulture NZ, Indevin, Jaimee Whitehead, Katie Doyle, Katie Milne, Libby Ogle, Mark Hammond, Michelle Hammond, Mike Chapman, Newland Farm, Overseas Investment Office (OIO), Pagan Karauria, Rabobank, Rebecca Howard, Reserve Bank, Rowena Duncum, Sheree Alabaster, Wayne Langford, Xueli Ke, Zhongliang Hong | Permalink . "So why am I now one day in to NMM? If I had goats, they'd totally have a goat castle.. pic.twitter.com/sPXcwfunhK, Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) June 13, 2020. . A wise move from MPI to give farmers a choice on whether to continue depopulating their farms or delay the culling of cattle.An official decision on whether to eradicate or manage the disease Mycoplasma bovis will be made on Monday.MPI says all farmers bar one whose properties are due to be depopulated from this weekend have decided to go ahead with culling.Executive producer of The Country Rowena Duncum told Andrew Dickens there's been a lot of talk about New Zealand's naivety in thinking we can still eradicate the disease - but that's not the case. Menu. Transforming industrial farming practices in Aotearoa through regenerative agriculture to reflect true kaitiakitanga (guardianship) is the way of the future, says FOMA Innovation lead representative, Te Horipo Karaitiana. Posted by homepaddock. "To be in a stadium and to feel it, and to even influence the game. New Zealand is not really short of water, it is short of water capture and storage, says HortNZ Chief Executive, Mike Chapman. Vet behind Mycoplasma Bovis detection hopeful for eradication: The amaru vet, whose efforts led to the identification of cattle disease Mycoplasma Bovis in New Zealand, says she is optimistic the disease can be eradicated. But first let us recap on what is at stake. The rest of the story about animal agriculture and climate: In the wake of a United Nations report pinning much of human-caused global warming on animal agriculture and promoting veganism as the logical alternative, Mitloehner, a professor of animal science and air quality specialist at the University of California-Davis, wants to set the record straight. Posted by homepaddock, Todays International Rural Women's Day. So lets look at the prospects for forestry. 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