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Nick Wadworth

Nick Wadworth

Nick Wadworth is a sheep and beef farmer who co-operates Bare Hill Farm in Central Southland, New Zealand, with his wife Alexis.

Aug 26, 2026

7:03
And Nick?
7:05
Yeah, I guess one of the earlier things we adopted and I'm probably preaching to the converted but We invested in a direct drill so that's just a machinery thing that saves a lot of time and money driving tractors around the hills basically to develop pasture or crops.
7:22
So that was the first big purchase we decided to do and it's been very valuable for the last six years.
7:29
We can't really go back to the normal cultivation that we used to do.
7:33
It would have been about four or five years ago, we invested in a drone, a very basic model.
7:40
And the original motivation was to get away from doing a lambing bait, basically, and not checking sheep every day on a bike, sort of.
7:51
Didn't really tickle our fancy, especially in the poor weather that we get.
10:30
How have you guys supported your staff to understand and use the new technology?

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