Dr Jacqueline Rowarth:
One of our leading primary sector academics comments on world fertiliser prices.
Plus, the demise of home-grown food due to cheaper imports such as tinned fruit and pork.
Adam Thompson and Rhys Roberts:
The Zanda McDonald farming panel on the cost of fuel, freight and fertiliser, and the price of land.
Also, planting 7000 native trees and a $2000 cash scholarship for environmental studies.
Grant Nordstrom:
It’s the turn of PGG Wrightson’s Canterbury/West Coast livestock manager to update the market in his region, where the shift is on from arable to dairy.
Chris Russell:
Our Australian correspondent laments the lot of arable farmers, celebrates sheep farming, and says he’s embarrassed to be an Aussie.
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