News
23 April 2024
Award-winning Southland farmer Zac Thomas is urging others to take up training, saying it’s the best way to prepare for a career leading to farm ownership and business success.
12 September 2022
From her first look in a working dairy shed as a teenager, Laura Murdoch wanted to work with cows, but a wrist condition meant she chose a career in accountancy instead and took up dairying more than a decade later.
25 August 2022
Completing a diploma in agribusiness management is opening the way for Marlborough vineyard manager Phillip Dight to tackle the next big challenge in his role, moving to sustainable wine growing.
16 August 2022
Farmers building their skills by studying towards qualifications have shone as winners in the recent 2022 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.
4 March 2021
Scott Adams’s large Marlborough property with its mix of native trees, forestry plantation, grape growing, honey production and sheep and beef…
1 February 2021
A diploma is a must have for farmers, particularly those who move to Aotearoa from overseas, who work in the agricultural industry long-term, says NZ King Salmon Ltd Tory Channel Te Kura te Au Regional Manager, Salvador Delgado Oro Laprida.
11 January 2021
West Coast dairy farmer Sian Madden looks back and laughs about having a “diploma baby” when she recalls mixing first-time motherhood with studying for her diploma.
16 December 2019
It’s hard not to feel outnumbered when you’re an equine vet surrounded by dairy and sheep farmers.
16 November 2019
Viticulture is a practical industry suited to practical people – so discussing budgets and financial spreadsheets with an accountant isn’t usually an enjoyable conversation.
16 October 2019
Having won the 2007 national Farm Manager of the Year Award with her husband, Daniel, Emily Woolsey had a pretty good grasp of dairy farming – yet she knew there was so much more to learn.