Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its cows and instead charge visitors to cuddle them.
OPINION: Animal rights group SAFE thinks skinny cows are unacceptable on a farm.
After two unsuccessful attempts to report farmers for allegedly carrying "thin" cows on farm, the group is now calling for the appointment of a Commissioner for Animals.
SAFE is unhappy with what it calls Ministry for Primary Industries' (MPI) lacklustre response to images of thin to emaciated cows, taken on two separate farms in recent weeks.
In both cases, images were passed on to MPI and in both cases inspectors visited the farm and found no offences and said the farms had sufficient supplies of supplementary feed on hand.
Just shows how much SAFE understands about farming and management of animals.
Labour's agriculture spokesperson Jo Luxton says while New Zealand needs more housing, sacrificing our best farmland to get there is not the answer.
Profitability issues facing arable farmers are the same across the world, says New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy Hamish Marr.
Over 85% of Fonterra farmer suppliers will be eligible for customer funding up to $1,500 for solutions designed to drive on-farm efficiency gains and reduce emissions intensity.
Tighter beef and lamb production globally have worked to the advantage of NZ, according to the Meat Industry Association (MIA).
Groundswell is ramping up its 'Quit Paris' campaign with signs going up all over the country.
Some farmers in the Nelson region are facing up to five years of hard work to repair their damaged properties caused by the recent devastating floods.
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…