Using precision technology to optimise farm inputs and yields
Learn how Mid-Canterbury dairy, cropping farmer and Global Farmer Network member Craige Mackenzie uses precision technology to deliver the right amount of water...
Craige Mackenzie
World Milk Day - June 1
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) back in 2001 established June 1 as World Milk Day, "which celebrates the important c...
A New Zealand Farmer Looks at Subsidies Through a Different Lens
A $12-billion assistance package to American farmers sounds like a great deal, at least for the recipients: a one-time payment that is intended to soften suf...
GMO Beyond The Science III: Collaborative GLP and GFN Project
The Global Farmer Network (GFN) has collaborated with the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP) on GMO Beyond The Science III that follows the earlier I and II multi-p...
Crop Biotech 3.0: A Farmers Perspective
Here in New Zealand, wedid not participate intheGEGene Revolution.Farmers like mesee an advantage inmakingsure that we do notmiss the next one.
You...
Sustainable Farming Practices, New Zealand
The Global Farmer Network recently queried some of its members with some questions about their views on sustainability in their countries, regions and local are...
Tackling Water, Resource Conservation With Modern Agriculture
As I sat in a board room in Minneapolis, I used a break in my meeting to check the moisture of the soil on my farm in New Zealand. I didnt walk into a field ...
Food Evolution: Search for the Truth
As a farmer in New Zealand, I have no access to genetically modified crops. Our legislation does not allow us to grow them on our island nation.
So I was eag...
Creating a Positive Trade Future with TPP
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Some attribute this clever line to Abraham Lincoln and others to Peter Drucker. Yet it doesnt matter who...
The Trans Pacific Partnership will be Good for New Zealand
It took five years of intense negotiations and political controversyand last week, trade diplomats finally gathered in New Zealand to sign the Trans-Pacific Pa...
Craige Mackenzie
Farmer, Methven, New Zealand
Farming since 1978 on 200 hectares - seed crops including wheat, ryegrass, fescue, hybrid carrots, hybrid radish, spinach and chicory; use crop sensing, soil mapping, variable rate application of fertilizer, chemicals and irrigation. Partners in a 1200 cow dairy.