The Muster on Hokonui

Rowena talks to Bruce Eade, Penny Simmonds, Dean Rabbidge, Bryce McKenzie

and Alan McLeary.

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We catch up with a South Otago farmer, former shearer and Shearwell tag rep around the family-owned company’s humble beginnings on an Exmoor farm.

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The co-founder of Groundswell NZ walks us through the group’s response to He Waka Eka Noa, what else they have on their plates, and whether he’s received an official invite for a cup of tea with the PM. 

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In our fortnightly catch up with former Otago/Southland Young Farmer on the Year Dean Rabbidge, we look at how things are looking on his Wyndham farm given the dry conditions and if he’s really thrown his rugby boots away for the season?! 

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We catch up with the MP for Invercargill regarding the proposed changes around carbon farming, the rising cost of living and the impact rising fuel prices are having on our primary producers; plus whether Nanaia Mahuta should give up her local government portfolio, over the Three Waters reforms. 

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The Sgt Dan Farmer Round with West Otago dairy farmer Bruce Eade - where we look at how the season is panning out over West Otago, whether Autumn calving is underway and if rising fuel prices might impact operations.

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Rowena talks to Andy Muir, Chris Dillon, Steve Henderson, Cathie Cotter and Mel Cupid.

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In our monthly catch up with the team at Fert NZ, we look at how cadmium can impact soils and consequently animal health, plus how to work around this issue and maintain fertiliser levels.

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The Chair of Southland Rural Support Trust has some good advice around the importance of keeping in touch with others during this unseasonably dry spell – including ways of helping others, and we also look at the pressure on meatworks processing.

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We chat to an Awarua dairy farmer about how his operation is coping with a staff member down with covid, and an awesome way of starting team meetings.

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