Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
OPINION: You canine crusader wants to tip his hat to Fed Farmers for busting the Government’s dodgy tactics in trying to buy support to rush through its controversial RMA reforms.
OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders just exactly how some of the so-called ‘leaders’ in the ag sector will fare if there is a change of Government on Oct 14.
OPINION: The Hound notes that the Taxpayers’ Union recently revealed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) spent more than $125,000 for its presence at this year’s Mystery Creek Fieldays.
OPINION: Your old mate wonders if the current chair of DairyNZ, Jim van der Poel, is the very same Jim van der Poel who is now canvassing to retain his directorship of the dairy industry-good body.
OPINION: Plan for the worst and hope for the best!
Dairy
Attention remains laser-focussed on both supply and demand from China.
Silver Fern Farms chief executive Simon Limmer is leaving the meat company and moving into the wine sector.
Agribusiness and government joint venture AgriZeroNZ has recently invested $4.1 million into a US-based start-up aiming to reduce methane while improving cow health.
Landowners are missing out on millions of dollars in carbon credits because of the hassle in becoming carbon farmers.
Environment Minister David Parker has labelled members of rural ginger group Groundswell NZ as “dinosaurs”.
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Green Party co-leader James Shaw doesn’t believe the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) Climate Action Partnership proposal will work.
An incoming National government will abolish resource consents for building water storage on farmland.
Federated Farmers has set out what it calls the rural roadmap that it wants the next government to implement.
Nationwide agricultural consultancy firm AgFirst has taken the initiative early on to have plans in place and tools available to help farmers prepare for drought.
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OPINION: The Hound hears from his canine pals in Southland that an individual's derogatory remarks on social media have left…
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