Carmelita Mentor-Fredericks
27 posts
Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, most of Carmelita Mentor-Fredericks’ professional career has been spent in a daily/national newsroom covering general news, and lifestyle and entertainment content for digital and print. She’s also dabbled in education, marketing and social media management, and now finds herself in friendly Feilding, where she previously dotted i's and crossed t’s for Farmers Weekly and Dairy Farmer before taking up the role of digital editor.
When she’s not spending time with her favourite people, she enjoys the outdoors, binge-watching TV shows, reading and getting creative in the kitchen. June 24, 2022
Farming to maramataka, the Māori calendar
As NZ marks it's inaugural Matariki public holiday, we take a look at farming to the Māori calendar.
June 17, 2022
NZ first to price emissions, but won’t be the last
Earlier this month, New Zealand made world headlines for “taxing burping cows and sheep” when the Primary Sector…
June 9, 2022
Oat milk cementing itself as preferred dairy alternative
While oat milk has only been on NZ’s supermarket shelves for a few years, according to NZ Functional Foods, oat milk sales here grew by 230% in FMCG in 2021.
June 7, 2022
How does NZ’s rates compare to other shearing nations?
Earlier this month, Farmers Weekly reported the New Zealand Shearing Contractors’ Association (NZSCA) is lifting pay rates to…
May 30, 2022
NZ farmer wins world wood-chopping title
This article was among Farmers Weekly’s most read in 2022. How much wood could a Kiwi cut if…
May 26, 2022
Taking succession planning by the horns
Generational farming families are at the heart of New Zealand’s primary sector, but putting a succession plan in…
May 20, 2022
Time to go sheep milking?
With a growing emphasis on doing more with less, sheep dairying is fast becoming a sought-after livestock farming…