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Blue Shed Diary

PGG Wrightson
New Zealand
Fieldays
PGG Wrightson
Integrated Pest Management
Glyphosate
Agriculture
Safer Farms
Sustainability
Methane
Farm Plastics Recycling Scheme
Rural Women New Zealand
Biological Control
Future Farmers
Environmental Protection Authority
Mental Health
Resistance Management
Artificial Intelligence
Caitlyn AI
Farm Without Harm
Wool Industry

Blue Shed Diary, a weekly podcast brought to you by PGG Wrightson, features news and information for, and about, New Zealand's rural communities. Like the blue sheds dotting New Zealand's landscape, the Blue Shed Diary is the go-to resource for our farmers and growers. We tackle important issues, explore innovations, showcase best practices, investigate how policies made in the cities impact rural... more

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The Rural Support Trust helps our Farmers, Growers, and Rural Communities thrive in good times and bad. Through well-being initiatives to community connection to advice and support through financial pressure or adverse events, RST is there.

The peo... more

Two years ago, when Cait Majeski (decidedly not a farmer) returned to the family farm to help her father after surgery, she often found herself crying in the field trying to figure out what to do next.

With an office background, she was used to hav... more

Each year, Young Winemakers (30 years or younger) from around Aotearoa compete for top prize in the Tonnellerie de Mercurey Young Winemaker of the Year Competition. Part of the prize, besides bragging rights, is a regional winemaking tour with PGG Wr... more

Welcome to Blue Shed Diary - podcast for Farmers and Growers. This year we hit the road and headed to Fieldays at Mystery Creek to talk to the movers and shakers of the industry.

One group, sharing a tent with PGG Wrightson, is LANDSAR or Land Sear... more

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Recent Guests

Michelle Ruddell
Rural Support Trust Chair and Te Tai Tokerau trustee
Rural Support Trust
Episode: Support you can trust with Michelle Ruddell, Rural Support Trust Chair: Fieldays 2026
Cait Majeski
Founder/creator of Pacala, an agritech spatial management software
Pacala
Episode: Meet Pacala - software innovation built for farmers with Cait Majeski
Thalia Osborne
Ashridge Winery winemaker, North Island Young Winemaker of the Year
Ashridge Winery
Episode: The Zen of Winemaking with Young Winemakers of NZ
Ruby McManaway
Winemaker, Seaview Estate Wines; associated with Yelins Wine Group
Seaview Estate Wines / Yelins Wine Group
Episode: The Zen of Winemaking with Young Winemakers of NZ
Dingying Jiang
Central Otago's Young Winemaker
Unspecified in transcript
Episode: The Zen of Winemaking with Young Winemakers of NZ
Alan Gregory
Volunteer for Landsar
Landsar
Episode: Whenever you need them: a conversation with LANDSAR's Alan Gregory at Fieldays 2026!
Kate Clausen
Regional sales manager for Halter, Upper South Island
Halter
Episode: Kiwi Innovation - a conversation with Halter's Kate Clausen at Fieldays 2026
Sophie Hurley
Owner and founder of Honest Wolf
Honest Wolf
Episode: Let's get honest with Sophie Hurley of Honest Wolf
Christian Muller
Technical expert for animal production at PGG Wrightson
PGG Wrightson
Episode: Tech Talk: The Hidden Transition for Dairy Cows with Christian Muller

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Milton
Host of the show with affiliation to Blue Shed Diary and PGG Wrightson; appears across multiple episodes.

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Ep 39: Targeting the Methane Targets with David Frame.
Q: What are your thoughts on the targets themselves and how they should be approached?
Targets should be revised with consideration of global trajectories, but more emphasis should be placed on implementable policies and price signals that drive real reductions in methane while maintaining agricultural viability and leadership in climate policy.
Ep 39: Targeting the Methane Targets with David Frame.
Q: What would a practical policy look like if methane were treated separately?
A practical policy could include ETS-style elements for long-lived gases but with methane managed through a price signal or targeted incentives in the land sector, potentially excluding forestry from the ETS and focusing on direct methane reductions in farming.
Ep 39: Targeting the Methane Targets with David Frame.
Q: Can you take me through a little bit of the thinking there on treating methane differently from CO2?
The guest explains that distinguishing long-lived and short-lived gases preserves established public health and environmental management principles, and that a separate approach for methane could involve ETS-like mechanisms or land-sector policies, with a methane-specific price to incentivize reductions without causing leakage.
Ep 47: Farming Free of Fossil Fuels with Electric Cherry's Mike Casey
Q: For anybody who wants to get their hands on Electric Cherry's cherries, where do they go?
Listeners are directed to Electriccherries.nz, where adoption of trees is paused for the year and the focus is on selling seasonal boxes; adopters receive cherries and ongoing farming updates.
Ep 47: Farming Free of Fossil Fuels with Electric Cherry's Mike Casey
Q: You got multiple unique selling points for the orchard. One of them is your decision to go electric and being fossil fuel free. Was that always a goal, or did you decide along the way?
Mike describes starting from a blank slate in 2019-2021, evaluating lifetime ownership costs, and gradually replacing fossil-fuel machinery with electric options, aided by on-site solar to lower energy costs. He frames electrification as smart business.

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What is Blue Shed Diary about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show serves as a practical briefing on New Zealand's rural economy, linking farming, agribusiness, policy, and innovation. Episodes frequently spotlight field events, agtech deployments, and leadership perspectives from farm groups, industry bodies, and government or political figures. Across conversations, listeners will encounter themes like field-based experimentation, sustainability and regulatory challenges, supply chain dynamics, and the intersection of policy with on-farm realities. A distinguishing trait is the consistent emphasis on real-world impact—whether it's adopting new technologies, advancing youth leadership in agriculture, or shaping rural policy—paired with a strong emphasis on Fieldays and other major industry platf... more

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7. Kate Clausen
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