NZ's handbrake
OPINION: Your old mate gets the sinking feeling that no matter who we vote into power in the hope they will reverse the terminal slide the country is in, there will always be a cohort of naysayers determined to hold us back.
OPINION: It's election season and Greenpeace is banging the old drum again – ‘kill the dairy industry’.
It’s now calling on all political parties to step up and commit to bold and urgent climate action - code for reducing the number of cows.
With NZ knocking on the door of a recession, Greenpeace wants to kill the cow that gives the white gold which sells around the world for billions of dollars every year. Without those dollars, we’d be broke.
Sorry Greenpeace, all political parties support a safe and stable climate and healthy environment. The difference is, they are all working alongside farmers to find scientific solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rather than shut them down.
NZPork has appointed Auckland-based Paul Bucknell as its new chair.
The Government claims to have delivered on its election promise to protect productive farmland from emissions trading scheme (ETS) but red meat farmers aren’t happy.
Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks could have a detrimental impact on any country's rural sector, as seen in the United Kingdom's 2000 outbreak that saw the compulsory slaughter of over six million animals.
The Ministry for the Environment is joining as a national award sponsor in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA from next year).
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.