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…
The world is the oyster of those who choose to be part of an industry that contributes to the most important thing in the world - sustainably produced food.
OPINION: The He Waka Eka Noa partners - including Beef + Lamb NZ - have developed two emissions pricing options as alternatives to bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
OPINION: With the emissions pricing options now out for discussion, the fear campaign has begun in earnest.
OPINION: As 2021 draws to a close, most farmers will be looking forward to it ending and hoping for better things in 2022.
OPINION: Your canine crusader understands calls by the Waikato Chamber of Commerce for Fonterra HQ to quit its Auckland office for the dairying heartland has been rebuffed.
OPINION: This old mutt wonders what information Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's office apparently "overlooked" in briefing notes relating to Groundswell NZ.
OPINION: The Hound reckons the country's hard-pressed wool growers will be pleased to know that rural banking specialist Rabobank has laid woollen carpets in its new Hamilton-based HQ.
OPINION: Your old mate is astounded, but not surprised, to learn that the New Zealand Film Commission gave anti-dairy documentary Milked a $48,550 "finishing grant".
Australia's largest live sheep exporter, Emanuel Exports, has had its licence reinstated after a three-year suspension.
New Zealand's livestock export trade sector is scrambling to fight off government plans to permanently ban the practice.
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Meat processor and exporter Alliance Group has appointed Mark Wynne as its new independent director.
With just 10 days under his belt as the National Party leader, Christopher Luxon last week rolled into Morrinsville, unofficial dairy capital of New Zealand, to let the party faithful and undecided in on what plans he had for the future.
Dairy farmers will be milking cows for as long as they can to capitalise on a record milk price this season.
The country's two largest fertiliser traders have increased prices, for the second time in as many months.
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OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
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