'A complete dog

OPINION: It's not just a rural banking inquiry that farmers want. Freshwater farm plans are another major headache for farmers.

Action, not words

OPINION: The new Government may be farmer friendly, but it's not love, rather action that farmers want.

Farmer fury

OPINION: Farmer protests have swept Europe in recent weeks.

False advice

OPINION: Rural communities should take their advice from health professionals, not Greenpeace, says Federated Farmers.

Unproductive

OPINION: Last week marked the closure of one government funded entity that people had hardly heard of.

In a bubble

Senior media execs in this country seem blind to how they are perceived these days.

Cows meta to Zuckerberg

OPINION: Mark Zuckerberg's multimillion- dollar housing project on Hawaii is attracting a lot of interest.

Heifer numbers down

OPINION: US milk production is facing a new challenge- a sharp decline in the number of dairy heifers available to replace older cows exiting the dairy herd.

Rural health boost

OPINION: A third medical school is a step closer to fruition and that’s good news for the rural sector.

ODH out

OPINION: The future of Organic Dairy Hub, a small organic co-operative started by Waikato farmers, remains unclear, following well publicised financial difficulties.

Farmer friendly Govt

OPINION: Federated Farmers posted a photo on X (formerly Twitter) last week of a meeting between its board members and the new ministerial team at the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Share tumble

OPINION: If you are an investor in listed Canterbury milk processor, Synlait then you may have a reason to be worried.

New party?

OPINION: Will departing Greens coleader James Shaw set up a new party?

OPINION: The fake milk brigade is trying every trick in the book to reduce dairy milk consumption.

OPINION: We hope the Green Party and its supporters are taking notice.

OPINION: With current dairy returns so tight, Fonterra farmers may start to question the wisdom of some of the co-op's more charitable ventures.

OPINION: Westpac is the latest bank to tell its farmer clients to meet the climate targets it has set.

OPINION: On tackling methane emissions, global animal health giant DSM will be hoping for a more sympathetic reception from the new Government when it comes to Bovaer, its feed additive that reduces methane emissions in livestock.

OPINION: Greenpeace's criticism of the appointment of farmers’ champion Andrew Hoggard as Associate Minister of Agriculture and of the Environment is baffling.

OPINION: Dairy farmers are seemingly more upbeat than they were three months ago and there’s a good reason – the change in Government.

OPINION: Some users of social media website X, formerly Twitter, are hard to understand.

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'A complete dog

OPINION: It's not just a rural banking inquiry that farmers want. Freshwater farm plans are another major headache for farmers.

Action, not words

OPINION: The new Government may be farmer friendly, but it's not love, rather action that farmers want.

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