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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
While the auto industry seems to release new electric or hybrid vehicles almost weekly, agriculture appears to have been left behind. However, a recent visit to Arizona as a guest of CNH Industrial gave Rural News machinery editor Mark Daniel the impression that’s all about to change.
The main sheep health problems that cause loss of weight and death are facial eczema (FE), worms and pneumonia.
The Government has announced an initial $4 million in funding to help farmers, growers, whenua Māori owners and rural communities to co-ordinate recovery efforts from Cyclone Gabrielle.
Massey University has come up with a simple and cost effective way of stopping sediment and phosphorus getting into rivers and lakes.
OPINION: Forestry Minister Stuart Nash recently chose Wairoa, one of the epicentres of conversion of farms to forests, to justify current policy and explain why an inquiry into forestry slash was not needed.
OPINION: Perhaps Captain Bligh’s infamous line, “the beatings will continue until morale improves”, best summed up the mood of New Zealand’s weary agribusiness sector at Fieldays last year.
OPINION: By the time Auckland mayor Wayne Brown made the symbolic act of declaring a ‘state of emergency’ during recent flooding, the actual emergency response – everyone from council and emergency services to citizens helping each other – had been underway for hours. Nobody was sitting on their hands waiting for a sign from on high.
OPINION: The Hound understands there has been quite a bit of unrest in the hort sector over the naming of a recent strategy, aimed at growing NZ hort export to $12b by 3035.
OPINION: Your canine crusader understands it is very early into 2023 but he may well have already found his ‘2023 Dick of the Year’.
OPINION: Your old mate hears that recent claims made by Wairarapa MP and newly installed local government minister Kieran McAnulty that it’s too unsafe to hold and publicise mobile clinics around his electorate, may not be all the facts behind their demise.
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OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons that while the princess of wokeness (former PM Ardern) may have left the building, the country's largest dairy co-op is fully ensconced with her style.
The Trans-Tasman battle for naming rights for mānuka honey continues as - after an initial withdrawal - Kiwi honey advocates have filed for a replacement application in the UK and EU.
The La Nina weather pattern has played a role in determining the fortunes of the summerfruit sector this season.
As Cyclone Gabrielle makes its pathway across much of New Zealand, Act’s primary industries spokesperson Mark Cameron is calling on the government to increase its support to farmers facing significant animal welfare and financial problems.
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