Growing Our Future Podcast
RaboTalk’s Growing Our Future is all about equipping New Zealand’s farmers and growers with the knowledge to support resilient farming systems for the future.
Using insights gathered from New Zealand and across the world, hosts Blake Holgate and Katie Rodwell offer up informed opinions and healthy discussion on the future of farming, and how to adapt farm strategies and systems to ensure New Zealand farmers thrive in a fast-changing world.
Episode 83 - Succession 2050 – New Zealand food and agri set for new era of productivity with Ray Smith
In the first episode of RaboTalk Growing our Future’s new Succession 2050 series, host Blake Holgate speaks with Ray Smith, Director General of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), to explore his contribution to Rabobank’s Succession 2050 Gearing up for New Zealand’s food and agri future white paper. Drawing on his extensive experience leading major public sector departments alongside a family background in agriculture, Ray provides a strategic perspective on how New Zealand’s primary sector is entering a new era of sustainable productivity.
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