Oat dear!
OPINION: A global plant-based milk company has confirmed it is not going ahead with its first UK factory.
A kiwi start-up’s attempt take on the dairy industry is ruffling a few feathers.
Otis Oat Milk, New Zealand’s first oat milk producer, plans to shake up how consumers source their milk by “disrupting a dairy-first generation of Kiwis to try a tasty plant based alternative that is homegrown and sustainable”.
The reaction on social media has been brutal and swift. One Facebook user said it should not be called milk but nut juice.
Another asked: “how do you milk an oat?”
One Twitter user had this to say: “Firstly, oats don’t lactate. That’s the privilege of mammals. This is oat extract, not oat milk.”
Kiwis are wasting less of their food than they were two years ago, and this has been enough to push New Zealand’s total household food waste bill lower, the 2025 Rabobank KiwiHarvest Food Waste survey has found.
OPINION: Sir Lockwood Smith has clearly and succinctly defined what academic freedom is all about, the boundaries around it and the responsibility that goes with this privilege.
DairyNZ says its plantain programme continues to deliver promising results, with new data confirming that modest levels of plantain in pastures reduce nitrogen leaching, offering farmers a practical, science-backed tool to meet environmental goals.
'Common sense' cuts to government red tape will make it easier for New Zealand to deliver safe food to more markets.
Balclutha farmer Renae Martin remembers the moment she fell in love with cows.
Academic freedom is a privilege and it's put at risk when people abuse it.
OPINION: Should cows in NZ be microchipped?
OPINION: Legislation being drafted to bring back the controversial trade of live animal exports by sea is getting stuck in the…