Prospering through change

Golden Bay dairy farmer Corrigan Sowman spent several years studying how farmers can best tackle the changes underway in agriculture. Now he’s applying what he …

Online Chat with Sam Whitelock – Vegetable Growers NZ

This Online Chat with Sam was done in partnership with The Pukekohe Vegetables Association (PVGA) and Vegetables NZ.  Sam shares lots of great tips including …

Men’s Health Week – Live Well to Farm Well

Farmstrong helps farmers and growers to cope with the ups and downs of farming. It shares the things farmers can do to look after themselves …

Fit for Calving Exercise Programme

The Fit for Calving programme will help you prevent strains and injuries as you come into the  physically-intensive calving season.  The stretches and warm-ups are …

Wellness to the Fore

Jonathon Hoets is a Farm Manager at Kairoa Dairies Limited, which is part of the Rylib Group farming portfolio located in Mid Canterbury. He oversees …

Online chat with Sam Whitelock for Otago and Southland

In this video Sam Whitelock shares how he manages disappointment, overcomes challenges, deals with pressure and other people’s expectations and discusses how you could apply …

Making Farming Easier

Southland dairy farmer Brooke Flett shares how a new programme designed to boost the resilience of rural communities helps her navigate the challenges of farming. …

Taking Off The Blinkers

Paul Walker runs a 300-cow, 90-hectare dairy farm in Pongakawa, just south of Te Puke, in the Bay of Plenty. He discusses the difference Farmstrong …

Online chat with Sam Whitelock – New Zealand Young Farmers

In this video Sam Whitelock shares his advice on how he manages to overcome challenges, disappointment and other people’s expectations as well as lots of …

Get a copy of Farmstrong’s new book

Farmstrong has steadily collected stories about how different farmers handle the pressures of farming. Now the best of these feature in a new book – …

Doing Things Differently

Leighton Oats is a veteran of the Kiwifruit industry – 20 years plus. Now he runs his own four and half hectare kiwifruit and avocado …

Research shows Farmstrong having positive impact

When Waikato dairy farmer George Cawte was growing up, there wasn’t much talk in his rural community about wellbeing or the importance of looking after …