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The Country - AgriFood Week edition
4 May, 2021 01:30 AM
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The Country
Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay spoke to executive director on the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, Ruaraidh Petre, who is speaking at New Zealand AgriFood Week.
On with the show:
Steve Maharey:
Is a former Labour Cabinet Minister and VC of Massey University who comments on New Zealand AgriFood Week and why the government should spend its $1 billion unspent Covid spend on investing in the agri-food sector.
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Jane Smith:
Is a North Otago farmer and former winner of the BFEAs who talks about hunting, dirty carbon credits, her new bestie Marion Hobbs. She also talked about farming with two droughts in one season.
Press Release – Southland Charity Hospital With roughly 1111 more kilometres under their belt, the drivers from the Thornbury Vintage Tractor club are ready to put their feet up. A project that has been months in the making has proved to be a successful community led fundraising event. So far, …
With roughly 1111 more kilometres under their belt, the drivers from the Thornbury Vintage Tractor club are ready to put their feet up. A project that has been months in the making has proved to be a successful community led fundraising event. So far, the tractor trek has raised an impressive $7577 for the Southland Charity Hospital. Despite their efforts, praise has been deflected to the importance of supporting a good cause. The long journey and tour of the Canterbury Charity Hospital has given the trekkers the opportunity to reflect on the importance of charitable hospitals in addressing the inequities within the healthcare system in New Zealand.
The Massey Ferguson 20D that will be used for the trek.
Photo: Southland charity Hospital / Facebook
The group from Thornbury Vintage Tractor Club will set off on Sunday from Invercargill in a 1983 Massey Ferguson 20D tractor to complete the 1200 kilometre round trip to Christchurch.
The tractor trek, as its dubbed, came in response to the Southland Charity Hospital s call for donations for construction of the project.
The Thornbury Vintage Tractor Club s president, Fraser Pearce, said they floated the idea of buying a brick until one of their members came up with a better idea. One of our club members, Tom Parkes, has been tractor trekking since the 1970s and he s always wanted to do something like this. Initially as a vintage club we thought Why not support the charity hospital and buy a brick? and then Tom came up with this idea and as soon as he mentioned it I thought This is a really good idea , Pearce said.
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