Published by Rural Life, 10 July 2024
Canterbury farmers who were part of a Hinds and Selwyn project to come up with ways to reduce nitrogen leaching on their farms expect it will be more difficult to make progress in future.
Published by Otago Daily Times, June 2022
Dynamic is a great word to describe New Zealand’s dairy farmers in 2022, South Island Dairy Event committee chairwoman Anna Wakelin says.
Published by Dairy Exporter, February 2022
A shift to the South Island, contract milking, has led a couple to an equity management role, with the prospect of growing ownership. Anne Lee reports.
Published by Dairy Exporter, August 2021
Canterbury sharemilkers Glenn Jones and Sarah Brett are embracing sustainability while making a profit.
Published by Inside Dairy, February 2021
Changing how they farm has already enabled the Willsden Farm team to reduce their farming footprint while maintaining profit.
Brothers Leo & John Donkers established and operate the joint venture dairy farming business The Camden Group. They spoke to BNZ about how they approach all things financial, when it comes to the performance of their Canterbury based business.
Published by Farmers Weekly 18 Feb 2019
A Canterbury farm is hitting its environmental goals ahead of schedule. Tony Benny reports.
Changing the regrassing programme along with tweaks to fertiliser and irrigation practices has allowed Canterbury family-corporate farmer the Camden Group to achieve the 30% reduction in nitrogen losses demanded by the Canterbury Regional Council, ECan, well before the 2022 deadline.
Published by Business Rural, 2019
Becoming manager of Camden Group’s Willsden Farm was just a “hop across the fence” for Robin Hornblow. For Robin, who is nearing the end of his first season as manager of the Te Pirita unit, it was a matter of coming full circle.
“I used to work on this farm ten years ago when I was a student at Lincoln University. It felt a bit strange coming back as manager but it’s a good challenge and it has changed so much since I was here anyway,” he says.
Published on stuff.co.nz 7 Feb 2018
Robin Hornblow and fiancée Kirstie Austin are farm managers on Willsden Farm Ltd, a 306ha farm at Te Pirita – one of several owned by the Camden Group.
Published by Country-Wide Magazine, September 2017
Renewal of the pasture of a Canterbury business’ four farms inside four years was conducted like a military operation.
