Skills

Grand Final of NZ ag’s flagship contest will be held in Invercargill.

Annual Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand industry awards celebrated.

Two of the five selected are new to the side heading across the Tasman for sheep dog trials.

There’s no margin in resting on one’s laurels, in ag as in athletics, says David Eade.

First female miller in country to join team at Mt Maunganui site from Nigeria.

Group swells to 19 future stars of the sector ready to be trained in leadership skills.

Considered decisions about where to compete will benefit our athletes and our exporters, says Phil Weir.

NZ pair take on international teams on England’s hard-baked summer soil.

NZX is offering an online academy to teach dairy buyers and sellers about the futures market.

Jack Fagan’s tally eclipsed, meaning all four current World solo eight- and nine-hour strongwool lambs records have now been set in England.

PhD candidate is looking for the honest thoughts of those on the lower rungs of the farm hierarchy, and how that might relate to safety.

SIT manages to fill posts after anxiety about future of the skill.

Test team comfortably beaten by Welsh pair to secure a 2-1 series victory.

Sheep and beef scholarship launched to support career development.

Cheyenne Wilson on her farming roots and what inspires her to stay motivated in a sometimes challenging industry.

Ag Pathways programme shares communication and leadership tips, business planning and more to advance their agricultural careers.

Southland dairy workers from Nepal received farm bike training with the help of a translator.

The Junior Young Farmer of the Year and AgriKidsNZ round out winning weekend.

2IC on a 430-cow dairy farm between Darfield and Dunsandel represented Tasman region.

Butchery challenge gets them to reduce half-carcase to joints, chops.

Nine school leavers will live on a Pāmu farm for a year, learning life skills along with dairy and sheep & beef know-how.

NZ’s top enduro bike riders to deliver bike safety workshops across the country.

A group of 20 Speckle Park finishers and suppliers is guided every step of the way by a partnership manager.

The Grassroots Dairy Management Graduate Programme is looking for it’s next intake of trainees.

Competition won’t run this year as Fieldays feature ‘rejuvenates’ – and looks for a sponsor.

Two-year scheme will also house school leavers and impart life skills to them.

Wool sector concerned about teaching the skill, and possible changes to the qualification.

Gumboots tossed, too, in the name of inspiring students to one day enter the sector.

Agriculture qualifications development projects launched in March.

An Australia-based shearer from a tiny Central Otago township has become the first person to shear 500 Merino ewes in an eight-hour record attempt.

I wake up and go to bed. Then I do it all again the next day – every day, every day, every day, says Invercargill-based shearer Esther Kidd.

Rabobank’s free one-day courses open to clients and non-clients alike.

Caleb Eady to face six other finalists after being named Northland FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

Set to explore a single core food and fibre certificate for the whole sector.

Games held in collaboration with NZ Rural Games Trust.

Southland’s Leon Samuels ends 35-year drought as he takes out top prize.