The season for awards - yawn!!
OPINION: It seems every bugger in this country can get an award these days.
Is this another example of the urban/rural divide in New Zealand?
Police in South Auckland are letting unlicensed young Maori drivers off the hook if they catch them driving illegally: instead of fining them they are referring them for training.
Yet farmers caught riding quads without helmets are copping hefty fines. One Blenheim couple were fined $20,000.
What’s happened to ‘one rule for all’?
There have been leadership changes at the Hamilton-based Dairy Goat Co-operative, which has been struggling financially in recent years.
OPINION: In recent years farmers have been crying foul of unworkable and expensive regulations.
Another 16 commercial beef farmers have been selected to take part in the Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) programme designed to help drive the uptake of genetics in the industry.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Kiwi exporters will be $100 million better off today as the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) comes into force.
Making things simpler, not harder, for deer farmers in farm planning and coping with regulations is Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) industry capability manager John Ladley’s current focus.