Domestic Focus
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided to focus on a domestic issue - oil and gas drilling.
OPINION: Labour leader Chris Hipkins' current tagline must have been pinched from Sinatra's song 'My Way' as he trudges around the provinces lamenting, 'Regrets, I've had a few'.
At the recent Fieldays he continued his mea culpa mission, trying to convince farmers he and his party are very, very sorry and that they can change.
Milking It reckons Hipkins is pushing it uphill at the moment.
After the previous six years of feeling under attack, it will be a while before cockies will trust the left side of the house again.
Meanwhile, the new mob have made concrete changes that should assist farmers - ETS exemption, bank inquiry, agrichem access, winter grazing rules, etc.
Chippy has his work cut out for him getting back in the good books!
New Zealand's pest problem has reached crisis point, according to Federated Farmers' second National Pests Survey, which shows farmers are spending more money and effort on control — yet pest numbers keep climbing faster than they were two years ago.
Testing confirms H5 bird flu in a single northern giant petrel, found dead on a remote Cape Palliser beach in the Wairarapa, says Dr Mary van Andel, the Ministry for Primary Industries' (MPI) Chief Veterinary Officer.
"What's for dinner?" may sound like a simple question, but for many Kiwi parents, answering it has become a job in itself.
Fifty Eight years ago, on the 16th of August 1968, August Claas, the founder of the harvesting company and father of Helmut Claas, personally presented a Claas Senator combine harvester to Scottish farmer John Steven.
New Zealand consumers are paying more for beef mince than ever before, with the average retail price now sitting above $24 per kilogram, according to Rabobank.
State farmer Pamu has delivered its strongest operating result on record.