Rebecca Greaves - journalist

20/09/2025

Decided to organise a afternoon ladies shoot here on the farm 🎯

Morning, rode my horse to work, docked some lambs.

Afternoon, smashed a few clays.

Ideal day.

18/09/2025

The best part of my job is getting out and about on-farm, even if it is blowing its guts out 🌬

On farm at Arklow in a fairly typical Pongaroa spring breeze today 🤣.

Being a freelancer means I do all sorts of jobs, one of my favourite is in my comms role for our local Puketoi to the Pacific Catchment Collective. Today's event was around opportunities for wetland and riparian planting 🌳

10/09/2025

Last night I did something completely outside my comfort zone - I presented on clever apps for farmers at a Beef + Lamb New Zealand Farming for Profit event at the Tui Brewery.

I spoke about:
* DAGI (Drench and Grazing Integration) app
* Aimer Farming app for pasture measurement - turn your phone into a platemeter
* Levno monitoring for fuel, water, milk and feed
* Life360 as a health and safety tool
* How I use OtterAI as a personal secretary

It was a real honour to present at the same event as the visionary Sir Ian Taylor, who was, quite frankly, inspirational.

My key takeaways from Sir Ian:
* Technology and innovation are the things that will take us forward
* We walk backwards into the future
* The future is sustainability and climate change
* Look at AI as a child, it has to be taught. Also be very cautious about what information you give it - everything that you put online is read.
* Go to work to be curious
* The world isn't changing - it has.

A big thanks to Simon and the team from the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Eastern North Island for inviting me along.

01/09/2025

Bula! I've been on island 🏝 time this last week. Fiji is such a fantastic travel destination with kids...time to turn the out of office off + back into it.

27/08/2025

Colorado update...seeing as I keep breaking myself I sent him to Anna for some winter education - she does such a fabulous job. Can't wait to get him on the hunt field again next winter 🙌

09/08/2025

Looking forward to this event - put it in the diary! You'll even get to hear me talk about clever productivity apps for farmers 🚜 📱

06/08/2025

Bit late posting this one, but seeing as people seem to enjoy the farming content (perhaps more than the stories?!), here it is...

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of hosting a great bunch of young people here.

Erosion is one of the biggest challenges we face on our farm.

In conjunction with Horizons Regional Council we undertook a significant pole (poplar and willow) planting programme, which is ongoing.

It was great to host a group of Growing Future Farmers students to show them some of the work we are doing to mitigate the risk and combat extreme weather events. They also had a good look at our soils.

Bonus, Richard has 12 less poles to plant this year - only 338 to go 💪

Thanks to Tammy from Horizons and Amy and Molly from Ballance for sharing their expertise.

NZ Farming

02/08/2025

Planting native trees 🌳 on the farm today - about 300. Such a feeling of satisfaction.

My husband's mum grew almost all of these from seedlings 🌱 collected from her garden and their farm!

We sprayed before we planted and these areas are below our woolshed, cattle yards and covered sheep yards, so are critical source areas when it comes to run-off.

In this video you see me, hopefully, giving this plant the best chance of establishment by putting in the wire hoops, which are recycled ♻️ and made from old fencing gear. It then gets a combiguard sleeve, which is pinned into the ground (again using recycled wire).

Grow little plants, grow!

31/07/2025

Show Circuit - New Zealand's Ultimate Equestrian Magazine does it again, another jam packed issue. The best bit? It's free 🙌 to read! This issue contains my features on the lovely Laura Hilhorst and the delightful and talented equine artist 🎨 Rosemary Parcell.

Welcome to interactive presentation, created with Publuu. Enjoy the reading!

30/07/2025

What a legend Diane is 👏 thanks to Farmers Weekly NZ for the opportunity to write these stories ✍️ .

On her Porirua farm, Diane Strugnell has leaned into doing her best by the land and its inhabitants.

29/07/2025

Getting the band back together...just like the old days! Thanks for having me Hame.

Tuesday folks, and Hamish McKay is behind the mic, here's who's joining him at midday!

🧑‍🌾Hamish Marr- Methven Arable farmer, and Member of NZ's Special Agriculture Trade Envoy, discusses farmer confidence in the arable sector, trade and tariffs.

🔴 Damien O'Connor- Labour Party Trades Spokesperson, on food costs, trade, and the Tasman Floods.

👩‍🌾 Rebecca Greaves- award winning rural journalist, from Pongaroa.

🗣 Pita Alexander- an Agribusiness Accountant who has been in the industry for 50 years, shares his "Lessons for Life in 2025".

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07/07/2025

This week's Farmers Weekly NZ story features doggos 🐶 and the talented Rebecca Williams.

When she’s not farming, Rebecca Williams of Highland Station, Matawai, can be found roaming the hills, camera in hand.