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OPINION: Was the ASB Economic Weekly throwing shade on Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr when reporting on his speech in Washington recently?
OPINION: Dairy News' stablemate Rural News, specifically The Hound, has upset a rural publisher by outing them for putting their snout deep in the trough of Labour's 'public interest journalism fund', something we refused to do.
To badly quote the Bard, they doth protest too much, methinks.
And like all media who took the PJIF dough and try to defend it, they miss the point: As soon as they took the money, from the Government, in return for agreeing to a prescribed editorial position, particularly on constitutional issues like Te Tiriti, they compromised their integrity and therefore their public reputations.
The public knows a Faustian pact when they see one and polls repeatedly show the majority of them think taking PJIF ping has compromised those that took it.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will be fronting farmers at three large public meetings organised by Federated Farmers over the coming weeks.
Federated Farmers and a major Australian-owned bank are at loggerheads over emissions reduction targets set for New Zealand farmer clients.
More locally grown tomatoes are coming to stores this month and you can thank New Zealand greenhouses for that.
Changing skill demands and new job opportunities in the primary sector have prompted Massey University to create a new degree course and add a significant major into another in 2025.
It was bringing in a new Canterbury A&P Association (CAPA) show board, more in tune with the CAPA general committee, that has ensured that Christchurch will have a show this year, says CAPA general committee president Bryce Murray.
OPINION: Hats off to our pipfruit sector.
OPINION: The country's dairy farmers will now also have a hand in providing free lunch for schools.
OPINION: The abrupt departure of Synlait chief executive Grant Watson could be a sign that Chinese company Bright Dairy, the…