Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Country Calendar is a New Zealand documentary television series focusing on rural life in New Zealand. It has been aired on TVNZ 1 since March 1966, making it New Zealand's longest-running television series. [2] Since 2013 the show aired for a season of 30 weeks per year, however as of 2016 it is being broadcast for 40 weeks a year.
New Zealand is the largest exporter of farmed venison in the world. [40] In the 1970s and 80s there was a huge industry carrying out live deer recovery from forested areas of New Zealand. The deer are a pest animal that has a negative impact on the biodiversity of New Zealand. The deer-farm stock was bred from the recovered wild animals.
The dairy farming year in New Zealand typically runs from 1 June to 31 May. The first day of the new year, historically known as "Gypsy Day" but now more commonly called "Moving Day" (also spelt "Mooving Day" as a pun [ 17 ] [ 18 ] ), sees a large-scale migration as sharemilkers and contract milkers take up new contracts and move herds and ...
The New Zealand Agricultural Show (formerly the Canterbury A&P Show) is hosted by the Canterbury A&P Association. It is the largest agricultural and pastoral show in New Zealand and features a unique combination of agriculture and entertainment. The Show has welcomed over one million visitors since moving to Canterbury Agricultural Park in 1997.
Landcorp Farming Limited ("Landcorp") is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government.Its brand name is Pāmu, the Māori language word for 'to farm'. Its core business is pastoral farming including dairy, sheep, beef and deer, as well as a foods business marketing milk and meat products globally under the Pāmu brand and as a supplier to other food processors.
A station or run, in the context of New Zealand agriculture, is a large farm dedicated to the grazing of sheep and cattle. The use of the word for the farm or farm buildings date back to the mid-nineteenth century. [1] The owner of a station is called a runholder.
Venison Farming - geograph.org.uk . A deer farm (technically a ranch) is fenced piece of a land suitable for grazing that is populated with deer species, such as elk, moose, reindeer, or especially white-tailed deer, raised as livestock. New Zealand is the largest supplier of farm-raised venison.
The Experimental Circle of Anthroposophic Farmers and Gardeners began activities in New Zealand in 1930. [1] The Soil & Health Association of New Zealand established in 1941, promotes organic food and farming in New Zealand. Organics Aotearoa New Zealand formed in 2005 as an umbrella organisation to represent all aspects of organics in New ...