The Country - Walking edition
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Resilient Farmer Doug Avery, who is walking the Paparoa Track.
On with the show:
Julia Jones:
The NZX Head of Insight looks at what s behind yesterday s surge in milk commodity prices. We also take a look at the prospects for red meat.
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Katie Milne:
The former President of Federated Farmers talks about the surging milk price, tourism (or the lack of it) on the West Coast, and representing Oceania on the World Farming Organisation.
Chris Russell:
Our Australian correspondent comments on the prospect of Wagyu-quality marbled lamb, NSW ending the ban on GM crops and the Sydney Royal Easter Show still going ahead.
December 18, 2020 12:05 pm
Former National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and World Farming Organisation (WFO) president Peter Kendall believes that agriculture’s direct response to the challenge of global warming must be to produce more food.
Speaking at a recent European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) ‘Focus on Farmers’ webinar, hosted by AgriSearch in Northern Ireland, Kendall said that farming has every opportunity of becoming a net ‘zero carbon’ industry by 2040.
“Agriculture is undergoing massive change and this process will continue. But farmers must be persuaded that the changes asked of them will be worthwhile. They cannot be forced down a road they do not wish to travel along,” he said.