Farmers Weekly 2024
Cartoon : 'Low lamb prices could see more farmers planting trees - news' image shows a sheep dog digging a hole to bury pine seedlings. A man wearing a white coat holding a clip board comments to an onlooker "Dog trials are a bit different this year."
'Parliament to probe rural banking' - news. Cartoon shows a farmer harvesting a crop by hand, but tapped on the shoulder by a banker holding a sign 'Loan Pay. due $$$'. He is tapped on the shoulder by a government official hiding a sign 'Govt bank rate probe'. He is tapped on the shoulder by a grumpy older consumer with a shopping cart holding a sales receipt with $$$
Cartoon depicts a maize farmer driving a trailer full from silo to silo all labelled 'No Vacancy'. North Island maize grain growers to prepare for a “perfect storm” this autumn as oversupply issues, few storage options and falling prices hit the industry.
Nestle offers sustainability incentives - news' Cartoon depicts a farmer who has opened a box of chocolate as a reward for achieving lowered emissions from Fonterra. Two onlooking cows - one says "We did all the work - where's ours?"
Cartoon: 'Farmers asked to look out for meteorites - news' Farmer man to farmer woman stading beside a crater with a burning hot peice of carbon at the bottom: "Look Martha, this'll probably be worth more than the wool cheque."
Cartoon depicts "No wool revolution sweeps hill country - news'. A very woolly shueep asks another sheep standing on a farm track with short wool fall off "Will you be going to the Golden Shears" "No just my annual wiltshire nudist convention."
Cartoon depicts a field of maize up north growing high and a small boy: "Wow amaizing!"( sic ). A farmer reading a newspaper with headlines 'Drought' 'Floods' commenting "This year it looks like we're in for a bumper crop..." "...of puns?" asks a female farmer. Refers to previous season of floods from cyclone Gabrielle, but uninterrupted in 2023-4 growth.
Cartoon depicts an urban-rural health services van stopped at a broken bridge, washed away by Cyclone Gabrielle the year before and not yet repaired.. Title: . "Widening gap between rural and urban health-news'. A female medical worker leans out the window calling to a woman paddling across. "Can we borrow your canoe?". Refers to news story of a head nurse who still has to take her own canoe to travel to her workplace at a rural hospital.
Cartoon depicts a Birthday Cake made of a candle, mud, slash and flood debris. "Too much on our plate" observes a bystander. Title: Cyclone Gabrielle - one year on.'
"Drench resistance grows in cattle- News' Cartoon depicts a farmer drenching his cows. Standing in line is a man wearing a t-shirt with a logo saying "no jab' . "I still believe!" he says indicating to his mouth - he wants a dose of drench also.
Cartoon depicts a kiwi mānuka tree holding an Ancestry DNA report on mānuka, showing it to an Australian t-tree acrosss the Tasman Sea. The Australian tree has corks dangling from it's branches and says "Crikey, cobbe. We're not brothers after all? Who'da thought!"
Cartoon depicts Anna Nelson the first woman elected to chair a major NZ meatwork company squeezing between a group of male meat execs at Silver Fern Farms to chair the big chair, saying "One in a hundred year event incoming"
Cartoon depicts a vet helping a cow to dliver her calf. A drone says "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Do you want me to play 'Push it' by Salt-N-Pepa?" Newsflash 'Vets to get Ai app'