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Good news stirs the emotions

OPINION: A mate from Aussie sent me a great story that had been in the press, again, over the ditch recently.

Simplistic water rules not useable

OPINION: What is simple is always wrong. What is not is unusable.

OPINION: This old mutt notes that Geoff Reid, an 'environmental activist' - whose activism appears to be limited to surreptitiously creeping around farms in Southland taking photos on the dime of Greenpeace, recently published more of his creepy farm shots.

Milking it?

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands members of the 'strategic groups' invoked in the Government-backed 'Fit for a Better World' programme - grandiosely labelled as: "A roadmap to accelerate the transformation of the food and fibre sector over the next 10 years" are on a pretty good wicket for not doing much.

Too much sizzle?

OPINION: A mate of yours truly asks if the financial pickle that milk company Synlait currently finds itself in is a case of the people supposed to be in charge of the company taking their eyes off the ball.

About time!

OPINION: The Hound, like many in the agriculture sector, is worried about the growing increase of good farmland being lost to trees - especially carbon sinks - and the negative impact this is having on rural communities.

Editorial: Howling in the wind?

Could Groundswell's next protest be high-jacked by fringe groups?

OPINION: Grassroots farmer protest group Groundswell has announced another national protest on November 21.

Catchment group making group progress on improving water

The Thomson Creek Catchment Group was set up in 2019 to primarily address the freshwater health and water quality issues identified within the catchment.

Over the last two and a half years, Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has worked on a project to improve the freshwater health catchment groups from across the country, with help from the Ministry for Environment's (MfE) Freshwater Improvement Fund. One of these groups is the Thomson's Creek Catchment Group in Central Otago.

Fickle weather frustrates contractors

Rural contractors say silage making is being impacted by weather in some parts of the country.

Rural contractors in Southland say the wettest spring in 30 years is impacting on already short supplies of feed.

Ice broken on an old problem

Hamish Ryall, Luke Jordan and Amy Hay with a prototype of their Flexi Mat FrostEase device, which is designed to stop water troughs from icing over during the winter.

Three enterprising Mackenzie College (Fairlie) students may well have come up with the perfect solution to an age-old problem of livestock accessing water from frozen troughs. David Anderson reports...