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Bev Trowbridge
On the Farm – It’s not the cow, it’s the how
What an exceptional spring we’ve had – grass growth has been phenomenal. Down on the farm there are lots of well-rounded livestock. Hard to imagine...
On the Farm – Farming 2040
So, it’s mustering day today. I leap out of bed and pull on my farm clothes. There’s still a soft mist hanging in the valleys...
On the Farm – Joys of farming
Farming often hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons these days. If it’s not the state of our freshwater, it is burping cows warming...
On the Farm – So why is our food so expensive?
A recent Commerce Commission report found that the cost of food is the second largest expense for New Zealand households after mortgage or rent. On...
On the Farm – Trouble on the farm
Oh dear, the farmers are revolting again. This time it’s a howl of protest, or is it anguish? There’s a long list of grievances. It’s...
On the Farm – Time for a rethink
With recent temperatures still up around 19 degrees and high humidity, we could be forgiven for thinking we were in early autumn, rather than nearing...
On the Farm – The need for trees
I expect that like me, you have been enjoying the enhanced kaleidoscope of colours on our trees this autumn, brought about by unusually warm days...
On the Farm – Loving lockdown
You’ll forgive me for always talking about the weather, but when you’re a farmer it’s your everything, even in a pandemic. So life in lockdown...
On the farm – Regenerative farming – what is it?
We’ve been hearing the words regenerative farming more and more recently, both in the popular media as well as in the farming press, so what...
On the Farm – Democracy and the urban-rural divide
Most of us would have been unnerved at how close the US, our supposed bastion of democracy, came recently to anarchy, as well as perturbed...
