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Live Well, Farm Well Podcast – Marc Gascoigne
Waikato farmer Marc Gascoigne talks to The Country’s Rowena Duncum about the stress and anxiety he hid for eight years, before finding the courage to…
Grass Roots Connection
Craig Wiggins is a well-known rural voice thanks to several decades calling rodeos and jet-sprints, emceeing events and advocating on behalf of farmers. He’s also…
Prioritising People
Award-winning Hawke’s Bay farmer Hugh Abbiss says a focus on people has driven the farm’s growth and success during some challenging times in recent years.…
Mobilising Rural Communities
Two Marton farmers have made it their mission to get local farmers off farm and connecting more regularly. Sheep and beef farmers Dave Smith and…
Tee-riffic time at golf events
A group of farmers and growers recently got into the swing of things at a series of golf events that got them off the farm,…
Turning the knowing into doing
Nadine Hickman helps to run an Angus stud farm near Blenheim. In 2020, she launched PepTalk – a magazine designed to raise awareness about mental…
How Farmstrong works
“I know through the work I do for Farmstrong, how important it is to keep talking and check on those who might have ‘dropped off…
Thunderstruck
Stu Weston, CEO of post-harvest business Apata, has been part of the kiwifruit industry since 1991. An episode of burnout years ago still informs how…
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…
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…
