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The age old saying ‘you need to be in the black, to be green’ certainly applies to the ability for New Zealand land-owners to bankroll the Climate Change Commission’s target to plant 300,000 hectares by 2035, or is it time for government policy to put a premium biodiversity credit to deter the easy money of carbon farming radiata pine’s?

Trustee of the Tane Tree Trust & Cambridge farmer, Ian Brennan, who’s journey is shared on the new documentary, O Tātou Ngāhere joins The Agribusiness Group’s environmental consultant Sam Mander on the panel to share how established native forest at scale is costly but benefits which accrue from a native forest equate to more than the sum of its trees and it’s time for a biodiversity credit scheme. 

To watch the short film, O Tātou Ngāhere : https://pureadvantage.org/o-tatou-ngahere/

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New Zealand land-owners who wish to plant permanent native tree forests in their marginal, steep country and to provide filtration buffer zones for waterways often are doing so at the expense of the long-term financial sustainability of their farming operation.

Forever Forest’s is an initiative that forest manager, Adrian Loo, explains helps line up the dollars to plant from retail emitters to off-set with land-owners looking to find the capital to plant native trees and in-turn the premium carbon credits that promote biodiversity.

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In this week’s “Opinion Maker”, proudly supported by our friends at Farmlands, the Climate Change Commission has a target of 300,000ha of new native forests by 2035.

How will this be incentivised the same way radiata pine plantation has been under the Billion Trees programme?

Guests :

•  Rakaia farmer & conservationist, Andrew Luddington explains that native trees need to be a priority and re-design the ETS to New Zealand’s unique vision for biodiversity
• Forever Forest’s forest manager, Adrian Loo, provides his insights from working with land-owners to fund and support the planting of permanent native tree forests and the value to the farming operation financially into the long-term
• On the panel, Tane Tree Trust and Cambridge farmer Ian Brennan explains how biodiversity credits could help incentive farmers, and Agribusiness Group environmental consultant, Sam Mander, explains how land-owners need to be profitable to be environmental philanthropists. 

To watch the short film, O Tātou Ngāhere : https://pureadvantage.org/o-tatou-ngahere/

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Looking after the environment on the farm has proven to be more than doing the right thing, it has also made good economic sense for the Hawke’s Bay farmers that took home the national environment trophy this month.

Evan & Linda Potter, farming at Waipapa in Central Hawke’s Bay, were named the 2021 National Ambassadors for Sustainable Farming and Growing awarded the Gordon Stephenson Trophy by the NZFarm EnvironmentTrust at Te Papa in Wellington.

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Lincoln University has had to depopulate and re-stock it’s farms after discovering M. Bovis in it’s herd, now pushing important climate change research back nearly a decade.  

Following their two farms testing positive for the cattle disease Mycoplasma Bovis, Lincoln University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Prof. Grant Edwards and farm manager, Jeoff Curtis share their devastating journey of how they will need to start research projects from scratch.

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RuralWeather.co.nz commentator, Phil Duncan provides the facts behind the weather headlines of the loaming thunderstorms and whether it will actually eventuate to rain for our most driest regions.

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A south island high country farmer suggests it is time our industry groups work collaboratively to provide farmers with the improved certainty they need to thrive. 

Mt Somers Station co-owner, Kate Acland has recently been appointed as the new farmer director for Beef + Lamb NZ after serving as an associate director on the board since 2018.

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In this weeks “News Maker” show of Sarah’s Country :

• Kate Acland shares her goals as newly appointed director for Beef + Lamb. 

• Following two farms testing positive for M. Bovis, Lincoln University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Prof. Grant Edwards and farm manager, Jeff Curtis will share their journey to depopulate, decontaminate and restock both the farms. 

• RuralWeather’s Phil Duncan latest long-range weather forecast.

• Sheep, beef and deer farmers from Hawke’s Bay announced as new National Ambassadors for Sustainable Farming and Growing, Evan & Linda Potter shares their success. 

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In this week’s Change Maker show of Sarah’s Country:

How is New Zealand’s horticulture technology placed internationally and what are some of the major scientific challenges technology can help solve into the future? 

PlantTech Research Director Ian Yule explains.

Jars of NZ-made honey with a unique manuka factor (UMF) of 33 have been selling for almost $5000 in the UK.  True Honey Chief Executive, Jim McMillan, shares why it’s some of the highest valued Manuka honey ever produced.

NZ farmers are continuing to look for ways to ensure the environmental, economic and social wellbeing of their communities. Taranaki Catchment Communities Chair, Donna Cram, shares how they are making a difference.

Consumer habits have changed due to covid-19, with a focus increasingly on buying local, so how can NZ exporters to the US compete against this trend?

Green Purse Chief Executive, Lisa Mabe-Konstantopoulos, explains what US consumers’ perception of NZ is post-covid.

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As part of this week’s Change Maker show of Sarah’s Country, Lisa Mabe-Konstantopoulos from Green Purse explains what the US consumers’ perception of NZ is post-covid, and what NZ food and fibre brands are taking advantage of e-commerce.

Consumer habits have changed due to covid-19, with a focus increasingly on buying local, so how can NZ exporters to the US compete against this trend?

For more information on Green Purse, visit their website: https://www.greenpursepr.com/

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