OPINION: New Zealand’s pasture-based dairy system remains one of our greatest strengths. It positions us well during periods of global uncertainty and cost pressures on farm.
OPINION: Wow, the world is a pretty terrible place right now.
OPINION: New conflict overseas comes with rising fuel costs, disrupted supply chains, and growing uncertainty across New Zealand, raising the question - why are we looking to expand our reliance on global energy markets, when we have the resourced to build our own?
OPINION: New Zealand's prosperity has always been built on farmers and scientists working together to shape our economy.
OPINION: As the fuel crisis hits the country and rural New Zealand in particular, perhaps it's time to turn to one of the kaumatua of the rural sector, Pita Alexander - farm accountant, advisor and a source of knowledge and insightfulness.
OPINION: Reckless action by Greenpeace in 2024 forced Fonterra to shut down a drying plant for four hours, costing the co-op about $300,000.
OPINION: The global crusade against fossil fuel is gaining momentum in some regions.
OPINION: A costly out-of-court settlement has hit dual-listed processor a2 Milk Company.
OPINION: "The worst thing that agriculture does is take land from nature."
OPINION: After two long years of hardship, things are looking up for New Zealand red meat farmers.
OPINION: 2020 unleashed Covid-19, and in 2021 we saw the smallest vintage in the past decade – for many wineries, tanks were largely dry by the time vintage ‘22 came along.
OPINION: Every vintage has it’s vagaries, and every season I am struck by how nimble viticulturists, winemakers and grape growers have to be, catching, or at least dodging, the curveballs nature throws.
OPINION: Rural school buses is a topic I have had a great deal of correspondence on over the last couple of months.
OPINION: Synlait's latest half-year result reveals a serious problem at the heart of the business: its core operations are no longer bringing in enough revenue to cover the cost of production.
OPINION: In 2018, when Fonterra’s board tapped Miles Hurrell to step in as interim chief executive, the co-operative was in the doldrums.
OPINION: Who will replace Miles Hurrell as Fonterra's next CEO?
OPINION: Governments all over the world are dealing with the fuel crisis.
OPINION: Synlait's woes show no sign of ending anytime soon.
OPINION: The mainstream media's obsession with (sleazy) 'tabloid' issues were to the fore at Fonterra's recent media conference to discuss its interim results.
OPINION: There is a lot of truth to this statement I first heard many years ago: 'The energy within is always more damaging than the enemy without'.
OPINION: If you ask this old mutt, the choice at the next election isn't shaping up as a contest of good ideas, more like a choice of who's the least bad option.
OPINION: A mate of yours says we're long overdue for a reckoning on what value farmers really get for the $100 million plus they collectively pay in levies to DairyNZ, Beef+Lamb NZ and Deer Industry NZ (DINZ).
OPINION: President Trump's tariff wars have torpedoed the US grain belt's biggest market, China, sending many US family farms to the wall.
OPINION: It's no surprise to this old mutt that some politicians are done playing nice with the low rent media pack that hounds them looking for a 'gotcha' moment.
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