Special Reports and Podcasts
Doing the right thing
A two-day agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) conference held in Wellington just days after Cyclone Gabrielle started out with the grim facts on climate change, but ended with a level of optimism and energy for finding solutions and doing the right thing. Anne Lee reports.
Our shrinking pool of people
New Zealand’s workforce is shrinking - and there’s no way that will change, a leading economists says. Anne Lee reports.
Investment saves all round
Safer and less physical workplaces have the potential to attract and retain staff. By Karen Trebilcock.
Redundancy is the target
Hayden and Alecia Lawrence have just spent two weeks on holiday in Australia in the middle of autumn calving leaving their herd manager to handle multiple autumn and spring mobs. The capacity to enjoy such freedom has come from making key investments, from an expensive farm dairy to using the free management tool Trello. Sheryl Haitana reports.
How to get, and keep your staff
You’re not employing yourself when you’re looking to attract and then retain staff. Anne Lee.
Learn by looking over the fence
Creating the right culture in a business where people live and work together is imperative, Anne Lee reports.
Learner fees covered for migrant workers
Subsidised fees for migrant dairy staff is part of the Government’s objective of achieving a higher-skilled migrant workforce with the right skill mix to support economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic. By Karen Trebilcock.
Where to for world farmers?
California’s farmers face a range of issues, forcing some to abandon traditional agriculture. By Elaine Fisher.
Nitrogen use drops 12%
Farmers were getting very clear signals from central and local government, customers, consumers of the need to reduce nitrogen use - even before Russia’s war in Ukraine, Karen Trebilcock reports.
