Displaying items by tag: CORONAVIRUS

Phil Fleming, FarmWise consultant in Taranaki, on steps farmers can take to manage debt and come out on top.

OPINION: As the world deals with the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, it’s important to remember climate change hasn’t gone away.

Dairy farmers want more Kiwi workers, but they also want relaxed immigration restrictions. So, what's the problem?

NZ Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated’s (NZKGI) chief executive Nikki Johnson says growers came through the past season reasonably well.

The experience of PSA – and the way Italy and China dealt with Covid-19 – shaped how Trevelyans Packhouse proactively manages their way through the Covid pandemic.

The horticulture industry has come out of the Covid-19 lockdown more resilient and with better people management skills.

Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Group facilitator John Stantiall was unsure, at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, how meetings could work.

Becoming Neudorf’s General Manager two weeks before the Covid-19 lockdown seems like “a pretty good hospital pass”, says Todd Stevens, acknowledging a few grey hairs from vintage 2020.

Pig farmers have joined a growing chorus in the primary sector calling on the Government to urgently review its migrant worker policies in the wake of Covid-19.

A disease equally infectious to Mycoplasma bovis and Covid-19 is threatening farm profitability and livestock health.