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.
Ignore our milk at your peril; that’s the message from UK farmers who are taking their protests against low prices to supermarket doors.
Tesco is the latest supermarket to be singled out by dairy farm protesters, who have switched their focus to cheap milk imported from the Continent and turned into butter, cheese and yoghurts; they claim less than half the butter and cheese eaten in Britain is made using milk from British farms.
Protesting farmers used tractors to blockade one of its biggest distribution centres in the UK; recent protests have concentrated on Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl, which had previously refused to raise milk prices.
A Chinese business leader says Chinese investors are unfairly viewed as potential security risks in New Zealand.
In the first of two articles focusing on electrification in New Zealand, Leo Argent talks with Mike Casey, operator of the 100% electric-operated Electric Cherries orchard and founder of advocacy group Rewiring Aotearoa.
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has reiterated New Zealand’s ‘China And’ policy, adding that it wasn’t about choosing one market over another but creating more options for exporters.
A long running trade dispute between New Zealand and Canada over dairy access has been resolved.
New Zealand Police is urging rural property owners to remain vigilant and ensure their property is secure.
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