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Editorial: Certainty needed!

Damaged roading in Tairawhiti. Photo Credit: Chorus

OPINION: Farmers and growers in Hawke’s Bay are rightly angry and frustrated at the lack of action from Wellington in sorting out a recovery plan for them.

OPINION: Your canine crusader was staggered to learn that an investigation by the Taxpayers' Union has revealed that taxpayers and Otago ratepayers have forked out more than $2.76 million to kill just... 18 wallabies!

Wrong again!

OPINION: Remember when the once-crumbling Westland Milk Products company was bought out by Chinese company Yili in 2019 and the howls of outrage and derision from current Minister of Agriculture and West Coast MP Damien O'Connor describing it as a 'sad day' for the West Coast?

Bought off?

OPINION: There has been a lot of public scepticism and controversy about the Government's $55 million-odd Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF), which has seen various media outlets take this funding on certain conditions about how they report or not report on issues.

Dreaming!

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons Westpac agri economist Nathan Penny is dreaming with his latest reckons about on-farm inflation.

New red meat campaign dots down

Women’s Rugby World Cup final try scorer Stacey Waaka is the star of the latest Beef+Lamb red meat promotional campaign.

A new campaign from Beef + Lamb New Zealand Inc. seeks to highlight the link between life’s memorable moments and New Zealand red meat.

Hoggard steps down as Feds president

Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard has announced he is stepping down from the role, two months earlier than expected.

Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard has stepped down from the role, two months earlier than expected, after media reports claimed he will stand on an ACT Party ticket in the upcoming general elections.

Giving back to the rural sector

The main objective of Carrfields Rural Health and Wellness Initiative is to ensure that rural communities have access to mental and physical health checks.

The Carr Family Foundation was keen to help the rural communities that have supported its business journey over the last 40 years.

Farmers keen for details

National’s Andrew Bayley, Sam Uffindel and Nicola Grigg spruiking the party’s new ag policy at a farmer meeting in South Auckland.

Farmers were quick to demand more detail when they got a first look at National's agriculture policies at a mid-April meeting at Otaua, south-west of Auckland, hours after its announcement.

Golden oldie shows no sign of slowing down

Jim Anderson and grandson Joseph overseeing the drenching and worming on the family farm at Southburn.

Jim Anderson is a third generation farmer still working on the family farm at Southburn, in South Canterbury, alongside his son and grandson. Even at age 85, Anderson shows no signs of slowing down. Leo Argent reports.