Sarah's Country

Sarah's Country

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Sarah's Country episodes

  • “Aparima catchment” with Rachael Verhaegh

    In a first for MPI, Thriving Southland has been established to redistribute funding to 23 catchment group projects to improve Rachael Verhaegh water quality. Senior catchment coordinator explains.

    To watch to the full-length interviews and to contact the show visit www.sarahperriam.com

    12 min
  • FULL SHOW (11 November)

    Isn’t biodiversity just a natural occurrence on-farm? Hawke’s Bay farmer Steve Wyn-Harris thinks so. 

     

    In a first for MPI, Thriving Southland has been established to redistribute funding to 23 catchment group projects to improve water quality. Senior catchment coordinator Rachael Verhaegh explains.

     

    NZ agriculture is facing a raft of environmental reforms. AgriHQ senior analyst Nicola Dennis wonders where the premiums are. 

     

    The New Zealand Roundtable for Sustainable Beef is calling for a new, more accurate approach for calculating methane. Chair Grant Bunting will explain.


    To watch to the full-length interviews and to contact the show visit www.sarahperriam.com

    57 min
  • FULL SHOW (10 November)

    How do we drive for change on remote farms? Red Meat Profit Partnership network facilitator Ruby Mulinder shares her experience of running action groups on the Chatham Islands.

    Why is it so hard to recruit people into the dairy industry? Federated Farmers’ Chris Lewis discusses why DairyNZ’s GoDairy campaign is being put off.

    Winter Grazing Action Group chair Lindsay Burton outlines what the group expects from farmers.

    Open Farms project founder Daniel Eb explains the success of reconnecting urban and rural as why the nationwide open farm day will return in 2021.

    To watch to the full-length interviews and to contact the show visit www.sarahperriam.com

    1 hr
  • “Quarantine space impacts labour” with Roger Parton

    Foreign agricultural workers are ready for New Zealand, but a lack of space in isolation is causing delays. Rural Contractors Association Chief Executive Roger Parton shares his frustrations.

    To watch to the full-length interviews and to contact the show visit www.sarahperriam.com

    11 min

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