Picture this: a country bumpkin standing in a sheep holding pen with 20-odd uni students, wondering what she will learn on a university field day at a farm. “I need a volunteer.” Sure. Why not? I step up nervously, awaiting the instructions. “I want...
The recent release of the 2023 national vegetable and onion benchmarks has highlighted the vast range of operating profit margins between the more profitable businesses ($22,900 $/ha), the average ($2,906/ha) and the least profitable (-$16,000/ha). You have to ask,...
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me! So many words in this stanza of the poem ring true. A...
As part of celebrating the 50th year of Planfarm, we recently caught up with a previous employee, Peter Scott who started Planfarm in 2006. Here is a reflection of his time with Planfarm. My Planfarm career – Peter Scott, Grain Marketing Advisor I was diligently...
Carbon farming has burst onto the scene of late, you’re hard pressed to attend a conference or field day without it taking centre stage. This is fuelled a by the global imperative to slow the rise of atmospheric temperatures and bring the world towards ‘net-zero’...
