Farmers Weekly 2024
Cartoon depicts a rural business owner leaving his packing shed, key in hand, as power bills blow by in the breeze. "Last person out turn off the lights. I'm going to get solar." Buildings have 'Closed' signs displayed. Other figures in the distance are heading into the sunset. Refers to power company charges mulitplying by more than three times over winter months.
Cartoon depicts gold medal winner in kayak cross at Paris olympics Finn Butcher licking his lips while being offered a burger as a prize at a New Zealand fan zone. 'NZ red meat prooves a winner at Paris' - news.
Cartoon depicts a farmer driving a ute down a bumpy pot-holed country road towards a school. Hi dog and load are jumping and jarred into the air. Tow omen are atching fromm the verge. Woman: "Before anyone raises speed limits they'll need to repair all our dodgy roads." Refers to National governments plans to lift speed limits nationally, without regard to local community wishes.
Cartoon depicts a ship run aground on the east coast of New Zealand, near Wairoa. It is spilling cheap imported maize over local growers crops. "Now they've flooded the damn market as well" cries a farmer. Refers to floods spoiling crops of vegetables and imports lowering prices for maize growers. Growers have no market for their product this season and are pondering their future as growers.
https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/grim-harvest-for-maize-grain-growers/
Cartoon depicts two border-collie farming dogs sitting on boxes in a la where a lab working is tanding. 'Working dog dna test - news'. A patchy-looking dog says "Apparently I'm well over the border from collie." Refers to
Massey Uni doing DNA tests on farm dogs to try and enhance working dog breeds.
Cartoon depicts Act party leader David Seymour as the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz carrying an axe into a store "Easy - just like pseudoephedrine." he says to a couple of farmers looking at Agri-chemicals not approved sucha as Bovaer, army worm poison etc. Title: 'Tin man to the rescue'
Cartoon based on the govt's announcement to take agriculture out of the ETS and getting rid of He Waka Eke Noa, the partnership aiming to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and build the primary sector's resilience to climate change, introduced by the previous government. Heading reads: 'Agriculture removed from ETS' - news. A canoe labelled 'He Waka Eke Noa' has sprung multiple leaks and is drifting away, sinking fast. Minister of Agriculture Todd McClay is standing on the river back holding a smoking shotgun. "We got rid of that old wreck for you." A farmer is standing next to McClay is looking nervously back over his shoulder. Coming over a hill in the background is a angry man in a suit with a clipboard labelled 'NZ Export customers'. ( The relevance is that international customers may be waiting in the wings to police emissions. )
Cartoon depicts two farmers looking at a Metservice south island weather forecast map, one saying "There - fixed it". He has turned the south island upside down but kept the weather the same. Refers to a drought spreading from Marlbourgh/Tasman down into North Canterbury while in Southland it's so wet farmers are struggling just as much.
Cartoon depicts the scene from Oliver Twist but here a cow labelled 'NZ' asks "Please Sir, can I have some?" US's Uncle Sam is laddling out Bovaer methane reducer feed supplement for livestock. Cows from other countries are gobbling down plenty. Cartoon is based on a decision by the United States to use Bovear, basically a supplement, as a way to reduce methane emission in cows. NZ is one of the few countries still awaiting approval to use Bovear.
Cartoon depicts finance minister Nicola Willis as a stage magician 'Nicola's amazin budget show' She is about to pull a rabbit from a hat. "This is where the magic happens...". Thae audience of four men stand with begging hats. They are labelled farmers, border security, catchment groups, scientists.
Cartoon depicts a bull called Farside Illustrious being inducted into the LIC Hall of Fame. LIC is the company that provides bull semen to dairy farmers and Illustrious has fathered more than 17,000 cows. Illustrious is on stage holding his award saying "I'd like to thank my family, Molly, Maude, Jane, Daisy, Edith...etc "
Cartoon depicts a NZ farm Association man with a pen chasing a deer jumping over a fence. "hey - I need to verify your origin." Deer: "Trace this."
Cartoon depicts Actor Sam Neill @twopaddocks who is the new ambassador for a Wool NZ campaign. 'Sir Sam Neill joins campaign for wool - news. "Amazing - Sheepius Vegesaurus - like a small woolly dinosaur." he says cuddling a high country sheep.
Cartoon depicts minister Chris Bishop throwing the RMA rule book across a stream to catchment groups - various people such as farmers, fishermen, scientists, environmentalists, local people, farmers reaching up to catch it.
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'
