Corrigan Sowman: Farming in a Pressure Cooker

Farming has always been an occupation involving plenty of pressure; managing the weather, competing with other nations to trade products globally, dealing with fluctuating and unpredictable prices.  What’s different today is the added aspects of social judgement and fast change occurring in international food.Nuffield Scholar Corrigan Sowman investigated how this pressure is affecting farmer decision making globally and what it means for change in the New Zealand primary sector.