Dairy Banter

Managing farm work, motherhood and millions of other tasks is all in a day’s work for rural women. However, that also means they don’t get a chance to visit the gym. Sarah Martelli has come to the party with an online fitness business. Sheryl Haitana has a chat to Sarah.

The Dairy Exporter & Country-Wide are proud to support this fantastic initiative to help feed those in need. Dairy Exporter senior journalist Anne Lee talked to the farmers behind Meat the Need, Wayne Langford (Yolo Farmer) and Siobhan O'Malley (PukekoPastures) in our latest podcast - take a listen, visit meattheneed.org and help out if you can.

In this Dairy Banter podcast, senior journalist Anne Lee talks with Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins about the stagnating dairy land prices in New Zealand and what to expect from the next five years. The findings Emma speaks about come mostly from her report, Afloat but Drifting Backwards.

Sheryl Haitana, deputy editor of Dairy Exporter, recently sat down with Karen Nimmo to talk about mental health, therapy and how farmers can build resilience to get through the hard times. Karen is a clinical psychologist and life coach.

Senior reporter Anne Lee, speaks with Dr. Jim Gibbs, from Lincoln University, about his research on fodder beet. In this episode Jim explains what to do if your yield assessment comes up short, and what to do with cows that have a high body condition score (BCS) at the outset of winter.

Senior reporter Anne Lee, speaks with Dr. Jim Gibbs, from Lincoln University, about his research on fodder beet. In this episode we're learning about yield assessment.