Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
OPINION: For more than a year now the primary sector has been crying out for changed around immigration settings to help ease numerous critical worker shortages right across the country's key export earning industries.
OPINION: Your canine crusader knows there is a great deal of unease - especially in rural NZ - about the Government's three waters reforms.
OPINION: The refusal of both Damien O'Connor and PM Jacinda Ardern to release some of the correspondence they received about Groundswell begs a question or two.
OPINION: An email from Fed Farmers' president Andrew Hoggard to Ag Minister Damien O'Connor saying some unkind things about the Groundswell movement - before its big countrywide protest in July - was recently released to a media outfit under an Official Information Act (OIA) request.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound's wants to know what's happened to meat company Silver Fern Farms and its latter day conversion to wokeism.
With docking - or tailing - underway in many areas, Beef+Lamb New Zealand is reminding farmers about the new tail length requirements.
A major upheaval in the global beef market isn't expected to translate into gains for New Zealand exporters.
Dairy commodity prices had a mixed performance in August 2021.
The Ballance Farm Environment Awards has launched a new Catchment Group Award as part of its 2021 awards programme.
Hang in there - don't give up on wool!
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Despite struggling to find workers, fresh produce grower and trader T&G is still forging ahead with growth plans.
A new initiative has been launched to improve access to counselling for farmers.
Meat Industry Association chair John Loughlin says China is one of the most demanding export markets in the world.
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty has announced he is selling his infamous ute for charity.
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Gaslight much?
OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…
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