Sarah's Country

THOUGHT MAKER

‘Ko au te whenua. Ko te whenua Ko au: I am the land. The land is me.’ A maori proverb that describes human’s relationship to ecology. The concept of ‘Multiscapes’ demonstrates our need to appreciate life on Earth as a community to which we belong, rather than as a commodity that belongs to us.

To read the article, “We are the Earth, and the Earth is us”:  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.547822/full 

To read the article, “The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance”:  https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/

To read the article, “Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism”:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919310067

This interview was featured as part of the Thought Maker series brought to you in conjunction with Multiscapes, an online international workshop at Lincoln University. For more information visit, https://www.multiscapes.co.nz/

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CHANGE MAKER

Farmers want new crops, but don’t know where to sell them. Food manufacturers want NZ ingredients, but don’t know where to source them.

Launched at the NZ Agri Food Week, Food HQ released the report “Emerging Proteins in Aotearoa New Zealand: What will it take for the sector to thrive?”

To read “Emerging Proteins in Aotearoa New Zealand: What will it take for the sector to thrive?” visit, https://www.emergingproteins.co.nz/report-emerging-proteins-in-aotearoa/

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OPINION MAKER

They say the essentials in life are shelter and food. Like chicken and egg, which one should come first? Once highly productive soils for food production is gone to housing, there is no coming back and New Zealand’s recent Our Land 2021 report outlines the big crossroads our country is in.

To read the report, visit https://environment.govt.nz/publications/our-land-2021/

This interview was featured as part of this week’s Opinion Maker programme brought to you by Farmlands, New Zealand's largest farmer owned rural supplies co-operative.

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CHANGE MAKER

Building a tribe around the management of water quality takes more than money to pull 27 catchment groups together for collaborative action.

Government can throw money at problems, but the limited resource in managing water quality is people such as this week’s Change Maker, Sandra Campbell.

For information on the events & work Sandra is involved with, visit https://www.thrivingsouthland.co.nz/

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CHANGE MAKER

A failed Solid Energy move into biodiesel was a win for rapeseed oil and led to a humble decade of growth capitalising on the New Zealand brand exporting high-quality, environmentally friendly oil as a food ingredient.

Nick Murney, Managing Director of Pure Oil NZ joined Sarah to share the story of his management buy-out and how they have used the capital investment and passionate suppliers to branch out into NZ grown sunflowers and soybean.

For more information on Pure Oil, visit: https://pureoil.nz/

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SARAH'S SISTERS

Growing up carefree in the Far North on a dairy farm, Belinda Price spent her childhood swimming in rivers and waterfalls unaware of how passionate she would become about both dairy farming and water quality. 

The Whanganui sharemilker farms 650 cows at Nukumaru with her husband, where she is responsible for the day-to-day running, calf-rearing and administration.

To read Belinda’s Kellogg report, visit: https://ruralleaders.co.nz/collaboration-of-the-primary-sectors-to-educate-tomorrows-consumers-belinda-price/

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CHANGE MAKER

The numbers of electric farm bikes rounding up cows or traversing hill country are likely to increase in coming months, thanks to funding for greater green vehicle uptake on farms.

Tauranga-based electric motorbike company UBCO has released a subscription or leasing option available to farmers and fleet users of the UBCO bikes helps remove an element of doubt first-time users will have about battery life and quality.

To learn more about UBCO Bikes, visit ubcobikes.com

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OPINION MAKER

By the end of 2022, New Zealand farmers & growers need to know their greenhouse gas numbers, so where do you even start?  

What tools are there to measure livestock’s nitrous oxide and methane emissions or your on-farm sequestration rate?

For practical information, backed by science, to help farmers and growers get to grips with climate change, visit https://www.agmatters.nz/

To learn more about He Waka Eke Noa: The Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership, visit https://hewakaekenoa.nz/

This interview was featured as part of this week’s Opinion Maker programme brought to you by Farmlands, New Zealand's largest farmer owned rural supplies co-operative.

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CHANGE MAKER

With passion and dedication for growing the next generation of farmers, growers and agri-professionals, Rex Newman has it in spades.

His incredible contribution was acknowledged with being awarded the Unison Hawke’s Bay Primary Sector Professional of the Year in April 2021.

To learn more about Hort & Ag Teachers Association, visit https://hata.nz/

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CHANGE MAKER

Fruit growers around the world are using a New Zealand agri-tech for growers to know the size & the colour of the fruit to pick and pack and have full traceability of where their fruit came from. 

For more information on Hectre, visit: https://hectre.com

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