Half A Brain
OPINION: When Donald Trump returned to the White House, many people with half a brain could see the results for…
The Reserve Bank is defending its decision to hike interest rates, which is piling more cost pressures on the farming community.
OPINION: The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
OPINION: Money donated to the Farmers Adverse Events Trust Cyclone Gabrielle appeal will directly help the farmers and growers hit hardest by flooding, silt and slips.
OPINION: Why do our rural industry group leaders (Beef+Lamb & DairyNZ), continue to mislead farmers over sequestration credits?
OPINION: 'Fix the rural roads now' is the essence of the message to government - both central and local - from B+LNZ chief executive Sam McIvor and other rural leaders.
OPINION: A mate flew from Auckland to Nelson a couple of weeks ago to participate in an annual fishing and imbibing competition in the Marlborough Sounds.
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.
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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.
The Hound
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OPINION: Media trust has tanked because of what media's more woke members do and say.
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