Free speech
OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
Visitors to Fieldays this year will get a taste of how cow collar technology Halter works.
With only two weeks before the rescheduled National Fieldays, organisers are hoping to put the woes of Covid-19 behind them and take a positive slant into the end of 2022 and beyond.
OPINION: The Government has shown once again it does not know the extent of the regulatory burden it is placing on farmers with the upcoming deadline for Freshwater Farm Plans, and councils and farmers are rejecting it.
OPINION: When the primary sector took on the challenge of an emissions pricing alternative, there was a clear goal – to secure the best possible system for farmers and the climate.
OPINION: New winter grazing rules are now in force.
OPINION: A new study suggests consumers would be willing to buy milk from cows only treated with antibiotics when medically necessary - as long as the price isn't much higher than conventional milk.
OPINION: The number of farms being converted to forestry in the name of tackling climate change in New Zealand is causing alarm.
OPINION: Fonterra is forking out $27 million to pay Victorian farmers to settle class action proceedings across the ditch.
OPINION: It seems that the high level of farmer anger over the Government's emissions pricing plan is finally reaching levy-paying bodies.
New Zealand's dispute with Canada over dairy tariffs rate quotas (TRQs) has taken a new turn.
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Weaker demand for dairy, particularly in the key Chinese market, is being blamed for the continued slide in the forecast milk price.
Dairy workers warn that if Fonterra's capital structure isn't changed there will be factory closures and job losses.
A dairy industry leader is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to take the pressure off farmers and give them more time to properly understand and digest the huge raft of changes that the Government is trying to push through before next year's election.
Waikato Regional Council’s new chair, Pamela Storey, says the relationship between the council and farmers in the region has improved over the past three years.
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