Wrong focus
OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
OPINION: The Hound notes that NZ Rural Land Co recently announced a $5.3m profit for the year ended Dec 31 2022, down a staggering $31.2m from the $36.5m profit it recorded six months earlier.
OPINION: This old mutt notes that the lack of fruit and veges is not isolated to just here in good old Godzone.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons it could be a rather confronting AGM on March 30 for Beef+Lam when its board has to front an unprecedented number of farmer remits (9).
Dairy
Commodity markets have traversed softer ground for 2023, and this is now reflected in Fonterra’s new forecast farmgate midpoint of NZ$ 8.50/kgMS.
According to the recently released Te Hiringa Mahara Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report, the impact of Covid-19 has added additional stress to the wellbeing of rural communities in New Zealand.
A Give-a-Little page set up in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle has seen farmers from across the globe band together to support their peers on the East Coast.
Greenhouse gas science communicator Dr Frank Mitloehner says the New Zealand Government must work with farmers to achieve climate goals, not against them.
Cloud Farmer - the business behind the eponymous farm management software app - has just launched a free Flood Recovery app designed to help farms affected by Cyclone Gabrielle.
Former Federated Farmers Meat and Wool chair Miles Anderson has been selected as the National Party candidate for the Waitaki electorate.
Massive problems lie ahead for one of NZ's major apple growing regions.
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Federated Farmers says it is pleased that Horizons Regional Council (Manawatu-Whanganui) has recognised the need to get work done on-farm by empowering them to fix infrastructure without getting consents.
It's a resounding ‘no’ to the first two laws in the Government’s Resource Management Act (RMA) reform package.
A warning for people who say all NZ has to do is argue that it is not causing any more global warming than it currently does: That argument won’t cut it with the rest of the world, according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton.
An additional $26 million has been made available for farmers and growers to clean up their land damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle.
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Burn the village
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