OPINION: Bouquets this week from the old mutt for Fed Farmers and Groundswell for continuing to resist the proposed Gore District plan and its intention to apply costly "cultural values" across the district and a raft of land classifications that are unworkable and counterproductive.
OPINION: If there's one thing farmers understand better than most, it's uncertainty.
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: Bouquets this week from the old mutt for Fed Farmers and Groundswell for continuing to resist the proposed Gore…
OPINION: In what world does old mate Christopher Luxon live?
