{"id":40208,"date":"2020-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/daily-digest-july-16-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:00:00","slug":"daily-digest-july-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/daily-digest-july-16-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Digest: July 16, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

We, the team of five million, proved we could do it with covid-19 and now the idea is catching on.<\/p>\n

During covid we proved we could do it our way and do it successfully. The key was ignoring all the naysayers who kept baying for the Government to do it like Australia or Britain or anywhere but New Zealand.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been importing political dogma and doctrines, education systems, bureaucratic systems, health systems and many other things for donkeys years. Some of them work for some of the people but New Zealand is a South Pacific nation with its own people, both indigenous and imported, far removed from almost everywhere else. Now people are suggesting in the regenerative agriculture debate we do it our way, define it for ourselves and use the unique results to market out goods. Hurray.<\/p>\n

But why limit ourselves to just agriculture or even just a brand of agriculture. If covid taught us one thing it\u2019s that we can rely on and trust ourselves to get it right, get it the way we want it and do it in a way that serves everyone in the country. Let\u2019s hope this we-can-do-it attitude it contagious. We can do it fits with the nation\u2019s psyche. We can do it and we can do it our way in everything we do so everyone benefits.<\/p>\n

Stephen Bell<\/span><\/p>\n

NZ has to define its regen ag<\/h2>\n

New Zealand needs to establish its own definition<\/a> of regenerative farming, Agriculture Minister Damien O\u2019Connor says.<\/p>\n

No free pass for market gardens<\/h2>\n

Horowhenua market gardener and Manawatu-Whanganui regional councillor Emma Clarke is adamant any removal of the district from Government nitrogen rules is far from a get-out-of-jail card<\/a> for growers.<\/p>\n

Bull sale season improves with age<\/h2>\n

Silverstream Charolais at Ataahua, near Christchurch, postponed its annual bull sale by a month this year and achieved a good result<\/a> with a top price of $35,000 being the best for some years.<\/p>\n

Group to set beef\u2019s priorities<\/h2>\n

Grant Bunting never thought he would become so passionate about sustainability but says the sustainability challenge cannot be ignored<\/a> if New Zealand producers want to improve their standing on the world stage. He talked to Annette Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wow. First Rob Hewett did it and now Agriculture Minister Damien O\u2019Connor did it.\u00a0\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t