Advice

Lightly salted: Taking Coastal Lamb® to the world

5 August 2020

Southwest of Whanganui there’s an enterprising farming family who’ve made waves in the culinary world with their coastal-raised lamb. Victoria O’Sullivan talks to Ravensdown shareholder Richard Redmayne about Coastal Lamb, the business he and wife Suze have built, supplying lamb to exclusive restaurants across the world.

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The Experts

Liquid nitrogen as an option

5 August 2020

Following on from Dr Ants Roberts article titled ‘Surviving spring’, applying nitrogen (N) in liquid form can provide an alternative and convenient option for sprayer or irrigation applications.

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The Experts

Surviving spring!

5 August 2020

The extreme drought conditions in most of the North Island and top of the South, wet conditions in Southland and the West Coast coupled with farmers holding more stock over autumn and winter (due to Covid-19) has created huge pressure on pasture supply.

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The Experts

Droughts: How to generate more from less

5 August 2020

Climate change research predicts that farmers will face increasing climatic extremes. This suggests that the future survival of farming businesses in New Zealand will depend upon farmers' ability to design and manage resilient farming systems that can cope with climatic extremes and variability1.

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