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Plastic posts of the future opens plant in the South

Future Post founder and chief executive Jerome Wenzlick at the company’s Waiuku factory.

It is estimated more than half a million wooden vineyard posts get broken every year in Marlborough.

HWEN no longer!

B+LNZ chair Kate Acland says it no longer supports the He Waka Eke Noa proposal that was put to Government in 2021. Photo Credit: Clare Toia-Bailey

OPINION: Rural News' article Putting Meat on the Bone (September 26) set out the NZ red meat sector's call for agriculture and the production and export of beef and lamb to be put at the heart of a new economic strategy, as well as the need for critical changes to some of the environmental policies that have been rolled out over the last few years.

Voting no laughing matter

OPINION: For a brief, humorous trip down memory lane, I recently caught some old video clips of the late Billy T James and also Kiwi icon and rural favourite, the late Fred Dagg.

Editorial: Time for change

OPINION: With election day only a few days away and advance voting well underway, there appears to be a mood for change in rural and provincial New Zealand.

Serious koha!

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands big power companies Genesis and Meridian recently coughed up some major funding to local iwi groups, under the auspices of the Treaty of Waitangi, as part of the renewal applications for their resource consents in relation to the Waitaki river.

Squeezed out?

OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders if the impending departure of Silver Fern Farms chief executive Simon Limmer will see a number of other senior executives leave the meat processor and exporter.

Putin's fault?

OPINION: The Hound is astounded at the sheer audacity and bottle of (outgoing?) Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and his ability to bury his head in the sand.

Woke and broke

OPINION: Your old mate reckons he now understands just why state farmer Pāmu (Landcorp in everyday man's language) is such a dog of an investment and why it returns a paltry dividend - relative to the huge capital tied up in the SOE - to the country's hard-pressed taxpayers.