Price cut coming?

OPINION: Dipping global dairy prices have already resulted in Irish farmers facing a price cut from processors.

Editorial: No need to worry

OPINION: What goes up must come down. So, global dairy prices retreating from lofty heights in recent months wouldn’t come as a surprise to many farmers.

Trees cut for COP30?

OPINION: As the COP30 talkfest ended, claims are surfacing that the controversial Avenida Liberdade - a four-lane 13km highway which cuts across the Amazon - was constructed specifically for the climate summit.

Badge of honour!

OPINION: Milking It reckons New Zealand should take a bow after winning the 'Fossil of the Day' award at COP30 in Brazil over recent improvements to our methane targets.

Guy Roper

OPINION: As negotiations advance on the India-New Zealand FTA, it’s important to remember the joint commitment made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at the beginning of this process in March: for a balanced, ambitious, comprehensive, and mutually beneficial agreement.

Remembering Bolger

OPINION: Is it now time for the country's top agricultural university to start thinking about a name change - something that has been mooted in the past?

Time for action

OPINION: If David Seymour's much-trumpeted Ministry for Regulation wants a serious job they need look no further than reviewing the rules and regulations governing members of the so-called House of Representatives.

Dairy dilemma

OPINION: Last week India's powerful Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal was in the country for another round of negotiations on a free trade deal.

Strange bedfellows

OPINION: Two types of grifters have used the sale of Fonterra's consumer brands as a platform to push their own agendas - under the guise of 'caring about the country'.

OPINION: Microplastics are turning up just about everywhere in the global food supply, including in fish, cups of tea, and even in vegetables freshly plucked from the ground.

OPINION: At a time when dairy prices are at record highs, no one was expecting the world's second largest dairy player to slash jobs.

OPINION: In the past weeks, much has been said and written about one of New Zealand's greatest prime ministers, James Brendan Bolger, who died just a few months after his 90th birthday.

OPINION: A short-term sugar hit. That's what NZ First leader Winston Peters is calling the proposed sale of Fonterra's consumer and associated businesses.

OPINION: Voting is underway for Fonterra’s divestment proposal, with shareholders deciding whether or not sell its consumer brands business.

OPINION: Politicians and Wellington bureaucrats should take a leaf out of the book of Canterbury District Police Commander Superintendent Tony Hill.

OPINION: Public pressure has led to Canterbury Police rightly rolling back its proposed restructure that would have seen several rural police stations closed in favour of centralised hubs.

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Milking It

Price cut coming?

OPINION: Dipping global dairy prices have already resulted in Irish farmers facing a price cut from processors.

Butter price melt

OPINION: Are the heydays of soaring global demand for butter over?

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