New Zealand-Diverse Seed Production
Craige Mackenzie is a member of the Global Farmer Network from New Zealand. He is a seed producer. In this video, he will show us various seed crops and how the...
Craige Mackenzie
The Four M’s of Precision Agriculture
M&M’s may be the world’s most popular candy. Just about everybody enjoys eating these colorful candy-coated chocolates, according to surveys.
I like M&...
Definition of Sustainability from Global Farmer Network farmers
Craige Mackenzie, Cheryl Hazenberg, Gabriel Carballal, Maria Beatriz Pilu Giraudo, Alanna Koch, Sudhanshu Kumar and Jennie Schmidt
What does sustainability mean to farmers? And what does it look like on their farms? These seven members of the Global Farmer Network tell us.
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New Zealand-Crop Rotation
Craige Mackenzie is a member of the Global Farmer Network and a member of the GFN Board of Directors. In this video, he's in a barley field discussing the impor...
New Zealand-Precision Soil Moisture
Craige Mackenzie is a farmer from New Zealand and a champion of precision agriculture. He's also a member of the board of the Global Farmer Network. Here he exp...
New Zealand Farm Tour-Carrot Seed Pollination
Craige Mackenzie is a farmer from New Zealand, a GFN member and also serves on the Global Farmer Network board of directors. One of the crops he grows on his fa...
New Zealand Farm Tour-Carrot Seed
Craige Mackenzie is a farmer from New Zealand and a member of the Global Farmer Network. His farm is very diverse, growing a number of products for export and ...
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...
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...
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.