A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
OPINION: The 2015 Paris Accord on the ‘need for an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change’, recognised the fundamental priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger.
OPINION: Predictions that NZ's farming sector is in for a bumper year need to be put into context.
OPINION: Your canine crusader reckons we should all be more aware of the latest environment scam - those companies who say they are planting trees in an effort to mitigate any environmental damage their current business practice is doing.
OPINION: The Hound hears that it's not all happiness and light in the world of the Climate Action Partnership - or as it has oh-so politically correctly called itself - He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN).
OPINION: Your old mate suggests with the way things are currently going and record milk prices, the shiny suits at Fonterra should be the last people in need of a government subsidy.
OPINION: This old mutt reckon the anti-vax protestors - who camped out on Parliament's lawns for the best part of a month - must have had some pretty wealthy funders.
Dairy
The milk supply situation in several key export regions continues to deteriorate.
It's a tough time to be in horticulture, according to Rockit Apples chief executive Mark O'Donnell.
Vegetable growers in South Auckland are bracing for Omicron and making contingency plans to deal with the fallout.
The rising cost of diesel on the Chatham Islands is threatening the profitability of the island's main economy of farming and fishing.
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Well known soil scientist and sometimes controversial columnist Doug Edmeades is launching his second book.
The Climate Change Commission has detailed the advice it will provide to the Government regarding emissions trading in June this year.
A proposal to better manage carbon farming could see plantings of exotic forests like radiata pine excluded from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Australia's support of plantation forestry sharply contrasts with the increasingly restrictive measures being promised in New Zealand by our government, claims the NZ Forest Owners Association.
The Hound
Save us from SAFE
OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
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