Jeff Scott Foster, of the Rutherford Hotel, has won the inaugural Restaurant award. Jeff Scott Foster, of the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson, won the Restaurant award for a savoury dish. Grant Selwood, of Little Engine Eatery in the Nelson Classic Car Museum building, won the Cafe/Commercial award for a sweet slice. Each of the winners won $1000 along with a certificate. Raine said no winner was announced for the Made at Home award, the third and final category, because the judges did not quite feel that boysenberries were the “hero” of the entries.
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Grant Selwood, of Little Engine Eatery, won the Cafe/Commercial gong.
The Country - Storm edition
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Today on the show, Jamie Mackay spoke to former President of Horticulture NZ Julian Raine, about how a recent once-in-a-lifetime storm has affected the sector.
On with the show:
Julian Raine:
The former President of Horticulture NZ comments on a once-in-a-lifetime storm that cut a swathe through the Nelson region on Boxing Day causing multi-million dollar losses for apple, pear, kiwifruit, berry, hop and vegetable growers.
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Jeremy Rookes and Stu Loe:
Today s panel features a couple of sheep and beef farmers, one of whom is a grafter, and the jury is out for the other!
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Dr Jacqueline Rowarth:
One of New Zealand s leading farming academics fired a shot at Vegans, telling them to get on their bikes, and she defended the controversial use of palm kernel.
Miles Hurrell:
The chief executive of Fonterra commented on a great GDT auction overnight (up 4.8 per cent, WMP +2.2 per cent, SMP +7 per cent) and he reluctantly accepted a comparison to Kane Steady the Ship Williamson.
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Julian Raine:
The former President of Horticulture NZ commented on a once-in-a-lifetime storm that cut a swathe through the Nelson region on Boxing Day. It caused multi-million dollar losses for apple, pear, kiwifruit, berry, hop and vegetable growers.
“If we can’t do that over the next 20 years, this [kind of protection] is going to be a waste of time.” The sea ice around Thwaites Glacier had been acting as a cork, stopping much larger volumes of land-based ice from sliding off into the sea.
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Beef, dairy and sheep farmers need to be encouraged to change their land use to help slash methane emissions, with reductions urgently needed to avoid irreversible tipping points, environmentalist says. If the glacier – which is melting at an alarming rate – collapsed, scientists fear it would cause up to 3m of sea level rise, more than double the rise forecast this century.