“Bringing wood acetylation back to New Zealand” with Russell Dale, Chief Executive, Forest Growers Research artwork
Sarah's Country

“Bringing wood acetylation back to New Zealand” with Russell Dale, Chief Executive, Forest Growers Research

  • S1E122
  • 09:07
  • April 21st 2020

Did you know we invented wood processing technology here in NZ, sold it to Europe, now export our logs to Europe to get processed and sent back to us? Sarah chats to Forest Growers Research chief executive Russell Dale about how he would like things to change.

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Sarah Perriam
TV & Radio Host, Creative Director - Perriam Media

As a leading voice in New Zealand agriculture, Sarah Perriam has worked for over a decade behind & in front of the camera in rural media, recognised for her extraordinary commitment to progressing the conversation of farming food and fashion-forward with an open heart & open mind.


Sarah has led an impressive career well-known from her nation-wide role as a radio host and a rural commentator on the AM Show. 


It was through this pivotal part in her career she was thrust into a position of representing the role females play in the growth of agribusiness & global trade whilst balancing an important emotive and educated discussion with our consumers around farming.


Sarah is both a host of the popular show 'Sarah's Country' and businesswomen with her production agency, Perriam Media with a team of 7 and a video & radio studio in Canterbury New Zealand.

 

Sarah’s Country is produced in a strategic alliance with the country’s largest rural newspaper, Farmers Weekly, broadcast LIVE 7 pm three nights a week and on-demand on the podcast to an audience of 70,000. She discussing the matters that matter most to passionate producers of food & fibre with open hearts & open minds.