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Carrfields: Agribusiness & Hemp in New Zealand

Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 3:54 p.m.

Carrfields, one of the leading agricultural companies in New Zealand, has operations spanning Kiwi agriculture, from machinery to seed production and distribution, irrigation, precision ag technology and everything in between.

Craig Carr, group managing director and guest on this week\\u2019s Hemp Podcast, said his father started the business over 40 years ago with a handful of straw contracts in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand.

Moving into machinery service and seed production in the 1990s, the business really took off in the 2000s when the Kiwi dairy industry went through a period of growth.

\\u201cIt was a big time in New Zealand of change, of farming. Dairy was really starting to grow,\\u201d he said. \\u201cAnd with that our business grew also.\\u201d

This growth enabled Carrfields to acquire several other ag businesses, making them a major player in New Zealand agriculture.

Carrfields has been working in the hemp sector for over 20 years, with an early focus on oil seed production and combine harvesters, and has since been working with fiber hemp for industrial uses.

Carr attended the Montana Hemp Summit in August and was impressed with the level of cooperation and collaboration among the U.S. hemp industry in the grain and fiber sectors.

\\u201cWhat probably stood out to me the most was the willingness of IND HEMP and others to actually work together for the benefit of the industry,\\u201d he said.

\\u201cEven though we\\u2019re way down here in New Zealand, there\\u2019s a huge opportunity for us to share learnings and to actually share information around what has worked and what hasn\\u2019t worked, because when you\\u2019re dealing with a product like hemp \\u2014 and particularly hemp fiber \\u2014 you know, you\\u2019re very reliant, as most people will note, on Mother Nature.\\u201d

Carr said the biggest challenge the industry faces, in New Zealand and abroad, is making it profitable for producers.

\\u201cBecause if the crop is not sustainably profitable, then we are not going to have that supply base in the future,\\u201d he said. \\u201cWe need to ensure that all of the financial metrics go back and start with the farmer.\\u201d

Carrfields

https://www.carrfields.co.nz/

New Zealand Natural Fibers

https://nznaturalfibres.co.nz/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarrfieldsNZ & https://www.facebook.com/contactNZNF

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/carrfields-nz/ & https://www.linkedin.com/company/nz-natural-fibres

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