Rabobank Best of The Country - May 8, 2021
7 May, 2021 04:59 PM
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The Country
This week on The Best of The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Rabobank s Head of Sustainable Business Development Blake Holgate, to talk about the Co-op Leader s Forum in Auckland.
This week s top interviews were:
Nadia Lim:
Is a celebrity chef, founder of My Food Bag, a social media influencer and a Wakatipu Basin farmer. She s had enough of dire wool prices so she s doing something about it and speaking out about one of nature s most sustainable, durable and biodegradable materials.
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Rob Hewett:
We asked Chairman Rob if he was running a dictatorship at our biggest meat processing company, as Silver Fern Farms played musical chairs with its chairmen. Plus, we looked at the climatic and supply link challenges facing the red meat industry.
The Country - Halt edition
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The Country
Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay was sidetracked from the latest GDT result by Fonterra announcing a share trading halt this morning.
On with the show:
Marc Rivers:
Fonterra s Chief Financial Officer commented on another good solid GDT auction and the rationale behind the co-op s share trading halt announced this morning.
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Rob Hewett:
We asked Chairman Rob if he was running a dictatorship at our biggest meat processing company, as Silver Fern Farms played musical chairs with its chairmen. Plus, we looked at the climatic and supply link challenges facing the red meat industry.
OSU Research Makes GREAT TREES
February 20, 2021
Forests and ecosystems around the globe are struggling due to many factors, the most volatile of which are pests and a rapidly changing climate. With the loss of forests comes the loss of a large source of industry, employment, and energy production. GREAT TREES, a research consortium based out of Oregon State University, is looking to provide assistance to the global forest industry to help forests survive and thrive.
The GREAT in GREAT TREES stands for Genetic Research on Engineering and Advanced Transformation of Trees.
“Meaning, how can we learn to efficiently modify (edit, like CRISPR) or insert genes in the important but often very biologically difficult trees [that are] important to the global forest industry,” Steve Strauss, Distinguished Professor of Forest Biotechnology at OSU wrote in an email interview with