For the final episode of 2024 Bryan chats with senior reporters Neal Wallace and Richard Rennie about the big news stories of the year. Both reporters travelled overseas during the year to find out more about farming practices and customer and consumer preferences. Back home there was plenty of big news in the food and fibre sector. They discuss meat industry woes, dairy’s resurgence and some of the big regulatory changes in gene technology and emissions trading.

Toby Williams of Federated Farmers also gives an update on the wool industry. Toby decided not to sell his clip at auction this year but reports that he got about the same price for it as he would have anyway. He’s got some concerns about how the supply chain is structured.

For the final episode of 2024, Bryan chats with senior reporters Neal Wallace and Richard Rennie about the big news stories of the year. Both reporters travelled overseas during the year to find out more about farming practices and customer and consumer preferences.

Back home there was plenty of big news in the food and fibre sector. They discuss meat industry woes, dairy’s resurgence and some of the big regulatory changes in gene technology and emissions trading.

Toby Williams of Federated Farmers has an update on the wool industry.

He decided not to sell his clip at auction this year but reports that he got about the same price for it as he would have anyway. He’s got some concerns about how the supply chain is structured.

Beef + Lamb NZ has commissioned a report looking at how governments around the world support their farmers with emissions reduction. Its climate change programme manager Madeline Hall tells Bryan that farmers here are on their own when compared with farmers overseas, who enjoy direct funding for sustainability initiatives.

Federated Farmers is celebrating a change in regulations that rules out trees on certain land classes from being entered into the Emissions Trading Scheme. Toby Williams says that it will give farmers more control over their futures and also help with succession planning.

Senior reporter Neal Wallace has been at the NZ Agriculture and Climate Change conference in Wellington as both a reporter and a presenter. He reflects on his presentation outlining the key findings from his Meeting the Market tour earlier in the year and sums up the key themes to emerge.

Beef + Lamb NZ has commissioned a report looking at how governments around the world support their farmers with emissions reduction.

Its climate change programme manager Madeline Hall tells Bryan that farmers here are on their own when compared with farmers overseas, who enjoy direct funding for sustainability initiatives.

Senior reporter Neal Wallace has been at the NZ Agriculture and Climate Change conference in Wellington as both a reporter and a presenter.

He reflects on his presentation outlining the key findings from his Meeting the Market tour earlier in the year and sums up the key themes to emerge.

Federated Farmers is celebrating a change in regulations that rules out trees on certain land classes from being entered into the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Toby Williams tells Bryan that it will give farmers more control over their futures and also help with succession planning.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says its Scope 3 emissions plan is a cost of doing business, with players across the co-op’s value chain demanding emissions reductions. He tells Bryan that Fonterra is in a good place with a strong balance sheet and a streamlined strategy as it faces up to an uncertain global economic and geopolitical future.

Federated Farmers has revealed some worrying statistics, with a large percentage of farmers having to look for off-farm income to bolster their balance sheets. Toby Williams says that sheep and beef farmers especially are doing it tough and many are having to put in extra hours to make ends meet.

Senior reporter Neal Wallace takes a look at Alliance Group’s search for new capital. He outlines the options on the table and the likelihood of farmers pitching in. Neal also has an update from Southland on the wet weather that’s been hampering farmers.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says its Scope 3 emissions plan is a cost of doing business, with players across the co-op’s value chain demanding emissions reductions.

He tells Bryan that Fonterra is in a good place with a strong balance sheet and a streamlined strategy as it faces up to an uncertain global economic and geopolitical future.

Senior reporter Neal Wallace takes a look at Alliance Group’s search for new capital. He outlines the options on the table and the likelihood of farmers pitching in.

Neal also has an update from Southland on the wet weather that’s been hampering farmers.