OPINION: The proposed RMA reforms took a while to drop but were well signaled after the election.

OPINION: Finally, the jackboot of State will be lifted from the throat of those trying to grow the economy.

OPINION: With media putting so much effort into covering the issue of children not really liking the school lunch they never asked for in the first place, it's understandable they've paid little if any attention to the looming threat to the NZ economy - bird flu.

OPINION: Making it easier to get things done while protecting the environment - that's the Government's promise when it comes to the overhaul of the problematic Resource Management Act (RMA).

OPINION: We've been having constructive conversations with the Government recently around climate change and emissions from food production, but now is the time to see these conversations turn into action.

OPINION: New Zealand farmers have been sold out, not just by the Government but by our own industry leaders.

OPINION: Last summer, a couple out exercising their dog took their usual walk around a local public reserve in Pukekohe.

OPINION: Farmers nationwide will be rubbing their hands with glee at the latest news from the Government about the RMA reforms.

OPINION: Is it the beginning of the end for Greenpeace?

OPINION: The good times felt across the dairy sector weren't lost at last week's Beef + Lamb NZ annual meeting.