Large crowds of people attended two field days to showcase farms that are finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy competition to find the country’s top Māori sheep and beef farms. Peter Burke reports…

OPINION: University of Otago research describing the water quality of South Westland rivers as pristine, despite 160 years of river flats farming, is no surprise to Federated Farmers.

OPINION: Plant-based beverages are expensive and provide only a small fraction of the nutritional goodness of cow’s milk.

OPINION: Trying to come up with an agreeable definition for success would indeed be a challenge and lead to some interesting conversations.

OPINION: The agriculture sector is continuing to find the rocky road to a solution to ag emissions may be paved with good intentions, but the outcome is a mess.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly reckons that ACT agriculture spokesman Mark Cameron may be overdoing his 'I'm a farmer' schtick a little bit too much.

OPINION: This old mutt wonders about the quality of directors currently serving on the board of Beef+Lamb NZ.

OPINION: State farmer Pāmu - one of the wokest, PC government-owned entities around - has announced the appointment of a 'chief sustainability and risk officer'.

OPINION: The Hound doesn't have the highest regard for multi-national, fundraising conglomerate Greenpeace.

Dairy

Commodity prices continued their downhill slide over August 2022.

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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…

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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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