Summer 2024
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Country-Wide is New Zealand’s only dedicated pastoral and arable farming magazine. Each issue gives independent, credible and often exclusive information to help them run your farm businesses better.
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People are our greatest asset. How we build good team culture on our farms and nurture the people who work in our industry is crucial to our long-term success as a sector.
In this issue of Country-Wide our special report takes an in-depth look at the ‘people factor’. We explore the importance of good leadership, and what that looks like, how we attract and nurture our future farmers, fair pay and reward and how a good health and safety culture can help retain staff.
On the cover, we caught up with Waikato farmers Bill and Sue Garland about their use of deferred grazing as a cheap and effective tool for pasture renewal. The Garlands farm in a magic part of the country, on the western side of the majestic maunga sanctuary, Maungatautari, home to one of the world’s longest pest-proof fences (the Garlands have 8km of boundary with the fence).
No farm business would have missed the significant increase in the cost of insurance in the past year. Journalist Tony Leggett investigates what’s behind the increase and the options for reducing the cost in the future, and we offer some rural insurance insights from Cinta Research.
Find out more about the category winners from the recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand awards and explore where the sector’s next productivity boost will come
from – success will require a leap of faith for many.
All this and much more in the summer issue of Country-Wide, out now.