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This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand's only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now!

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Te Radar joins us, fully wired and caffeinated to share some incredible developments about the future of farming. Radar is a NZ broadcasting icon and has been making TV and radio programmes for decades about sustainability and our relationship to the environment. He comes from a farming family and has travelled the world meeting agriculturalists from all over the planet who are doing things differently. We discuss the difficulties of treating trees as a total solution for offsetting carbon, moving people from a free hold mentality regarding land to a lease hold mentality (nature being the leaseholder) and much more. Radar also shares his optimism about the future, the younger generation and vertical farming.

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Links and Resources
Alanna Mitchell's book, Seasick
China has culled 100m pigs
AI-assisted pig farming
Tech advances in Chinese supermarkets increasing trackability of farm-to-table food journeys
40% of US Farmers' 2019 income will come from government subsidies and insurance

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