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As part of this week’s “Opinion Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Mark McCoard from Deer Farmers Association and Phil McKenzie from DINZ discuss how deer farmers are going to be able to meet climate change emission reduction targets.

While the industry welcomes many aspects of the Climate Change Commission’s interim report, it will be a challenge for deer farmers.

If the commission’s recommendations are adopted, livestock farmers will need to reduce their net methane emissions from 2018 levels by 13% by 2030, a further 7% by 2035 and another 4% by 2050.

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/agribusiness/deer/unclear-how-deer-farmers-will-meet-emissions-targets

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As part of this week’s “Opinion Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Nicola Johnston from Silver Fern Farms explains the impact of Covid on venison prices in Europe and North America, and how they have pivoted their efforts into venison’s third largest market, China on a venison marketing project with DINZ.

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/agribusiness/deer/sff-dinz-team-up-on-venison-project

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As part of this week’s “Opinion Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Rhys Griffiths from Deer Industry NZ discusses how three companies have formed a coalition to develop a New Zealand velvet market as a health food ingredient in China.

Deer velvet and red ginseng, two of the two most highly prized ingredients in traditional oriental medicine, have in recent years enjoyed an explosion in demand from South Korea for use in branded natural health products to combat fatigue and boost immunity.

In a marketing-only China velvet coalition – CK Import Export, PGG Wrightson and Provelco – will work together to get the critical mass needed to make an impact with the proposed new health food in China.

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/agribusiness/deer/velvet-coalition-targets-china

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

Our Land and Water has released a white paper on regenerative agriculture. Landcare Research Senior Scientist, Dr Gwen Grelet, and Quorum Sense’s Manager, Sam Lang, explains.

What’s driving the ever-increasing dairy prices, and how sustainable are these prices? Rabobank Dairy Analyst, Emma Higgins, explains.

As the high shifts out to our east and a low in the Tasman Sea may rapidly form and even reach storm status, RuralWeather’s Phil Duncan gives us a thorough weather report for the week ahead.

With the shutdown of restaurants around the world, New Zealand’s meat processing companies have had to pivot into selling into retail. Michael Wan, Global Manager for Beef + Lamb New Zealand discusses.

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As part of this week’s “News Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Michael Wan from Beef + Lamb New Zealand discusses now NZ meat processing companies have had to pivot into selling to retail.

Changing eating patterns as global consumers respond to the covid-19 pandemic is forcing meat exporters to shift their focus to retail markets, which will require more stock supplied out of season.

The global retail sector is growing rapidly for meat exporters as consumers, forced due to the pandemic lockdown, are cooking for themselves at the expense of foodservice.

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/beef/view/meat-markets-evolve

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As part of this week’s “News Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Phil Duncan from RuralWeather discusses how rainfall is looking for the rest of February and the main weather features going into March.

There is a small but potent low coming out of the Tasman Sea area on Tuesday/Wednesday which will bring a burst of wind and rain into southern and western NZ.

This will be followed by a cooler change in the lower South Island. Elsewhere, it’s looking drier than average for the rest of the month of February.

To keep up to date, visit RuralWeather: www.ruralweather.co.nz

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As part of this week’s “News Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Emma Higgins from Rabobank discusses what’s driving the ever-increasing dairy prices and how sustainable these prices are.

Sustained increases in Global Dairy Trade (GDT) prices have pushed the New Zealand farm gate milk price for this season into the mid-$7/kg territory, where it might deliver the second-highest Fonterra payout in 20 years.

The GDT index of 1170 and an average price of US$3746/tonne rose 3% in the latest auction, the 10th rise in 12 auctions over the past six months. During that time, the dairy market has lifted by 28% and it is now 20% higher than a year ago.

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/dairy/view/gdt-pushes-prospect-of-higher-milk-prices

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As part of this week’s “News Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Dr Gwen Grelet from Landcare Research and Sam Lang from Quorum Sense explain the key points from the whitepaper released today on regenerative agriculture.

Emerging from research from 200+ representatives of New Zealand's major agricultural sectors, Our Land and Water’s white paper highlights the 11 principles of regenerative farming practices that mainstream practices have overlap and compatibility with.

When we are in strong agreement with our most acute challenges, where is the science research priorities?

To read more on this subject, visit https://ourlandandwater.nz/news/regen-ag-white-paper_feb-2021/

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

Award-winning dairy farmer Fraser McGougan shares his intentions as newly appointed Chair of the DairyNZ Climate Change Ambassadors.

How can we help speed up the process of hiring seasonal workers? PICMI’s founder Genevieve Griffin-George discusses the ground-breaking app that has reduced hiring time by 70%.

Leading the way in the avocado industry with their approach to regeneration, sustainability and utilising all waste to energy. Olivado’s Chief Executive Gary Hannam explains their process.

How can we grow our crops to withstand climate change? Margot Forde Germplasm Centre’s Director, Kioumars Ghamkhar, shares some of this country's most valued intellectual property.

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As part of this week’s “Change Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Dr Kioumars Ghamkhar from Margot Forde Germplasm Centre discusses how we can grow our crops to withstand climate change.

This month’s Climate Change Commission recommendations include farmers facing the prospect of reducing stocking rates to meet carbon reduction obligations. But the head of the nation’s largest seed bank is urging a closer look at what it has on hand that may offer benefits in lower methane emissions.

Kioumars says the MFGC is by far the largest repository in the world for forage seed germplasm, containing over 2,200 species, including 2,500 wild variations of white clover alone.

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/arable/view/seed-gold-needs-mining

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