Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says the recent release of consultation materials on changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) settings, including to the permanent forest category, represents long-overdue Government acknowledgement that the ETS isn’t working.
IrrigationNZ has released its election manifesto, calling for policies that secure water for growing food.
OPINION: I am on the email list for Groundswell NZ and enjoy receiving their updates.
A Canterbury farmer's plan to establish an industrial-scale composting barn feedlot on Banks Peninsula is off the table - for now.
OPINION: To Paraphrase the Monty Python dead parrot sketch, it looks as though the much maligned and deeply unpopular He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) agricultural emissions plan has: … ‘… passed on! Is no more! Has ceased to be! Expired and gone to meet its maker! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!’
OPINION: This old mutt suggests farmers and tradies will be delighted to learn that the exorbitant ute tax they are now paying is helping wealthy Aucklanders buy subsidised Teslas.
OPINION: The Hound shed a tear (crocodile) on hearing about the looming redundancy of perennial anti-farming critic 'Dr' Mike Joy.
OPINION: Following Beef + Lamb NZ's rather testy annual meeting - and the ousting of former chair Andrew Morrison - the organisation decided to go on a charm offensive in an effort to get farmers back onside.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons with the looming failure of He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) it's not only the Government that should take the fall.
Westpac has launched a new sustainable loan for farming.
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Much like New Zealand contractors who need nothern hemisphere operators to help with the grass, maize and cereal harvests, the United Kingdom is in need of those with prowess on the handpiece to help take the fleeces off that country's 15 million sheep.
Thirteen New Zealand tertiary students have travelled across the country for Hauora Taiwhenua's (Rural Health Network) first rural school visits programme of 2023.
Kohunui Station owners Todd and Donna Oliver are putting up an original painting of an Angus bull for auction at their 2023 bull sale.
Parts of Wairarapa are still recovering from a year of wet weather and storms - including Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle.
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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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