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Morning Rural News for 7 July 2022
News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
Midday Rural News for 6 July 2022
The Climate Change Commission is backing the pricing of agricultural emissions at the farm-level and outside the Emissions Trading Scheme. Audio
Morning Rural News for 6 July 2022
News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
Vege growers turn off the heat as coal and gas prices soar
The soaring cost of energy such as coal and gas has led some indoor vegetable growers to turn off their heaters.
Salmon exporter wants to head to the ocean
The country's biggest salmon exporter is desperate to start farming in the open ocean away from warming coastal waters that are killing thousands of its fish.
A record breaking marine heatwave has… Audio
Marine heatwaves: How is aquaculture adapting to climate change?
A record-breaking marine heatwave hurt business and ecosystems last summer, and could happen again next year. How is aquaculture adapting?
Morning Rural News for 5 July 2022
News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
Morning Rural News for 4 July 2022
News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
Economic confidence lifts in Hawke's Bay and East Coast
Economic confidence in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti has rebounded, although people are still more pessimistic.
The Week in Detail: GIB, farm emissions, and sick leave
The Detail podcast brings you the issues that matter every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Should New Zealand be rethinking its food supply policy?
Price hikes in food, warnings of shortages to come and now the muted feeling about the latest trade deal, should NZ be rethinking its food policy? Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Adjunct Professor Lincoln… Audio
Happy cow, happy customers
Waikato farmer Chris Falconer is the first farmer in New Zealand to trial the Happy Cow milk processing and distribution system. He farms the Happy Cow way, with a strong focus on being green and kind… Audio
Growing and showing pigs for fun
While many teenage boys get stuck into gaming after school, you'll find Fletcher Keen in a paddock. Last year a pig named 'Ashley Bloomfield' won the 14-year-old Cantabrian 'Best Boar Over 5 months… Audio
Indigenous Forest and Carbon
Two retired Auckland University lecturers put the case for correctly acknowledging the role native trees can play in carbon sequestration. Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Northland soils are extremely wet so dairy farmers are continuing to stand cows off pastures where possible. Central Otago farmers are shifting breaks and feeding out stock and shearing is underway on… Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 1 2022
Happy Cow Happy Customers, Indigenous Forest and Carbon, Growing and showing pigs for fun and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.
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Meat and dairy industries very disappointed with NZ EU trade deal
The meat and dairy industries are very disappointed with the outcome of the free trade deal struck between New Zealand and the European Union saying it falls far below their expectations. Audio
