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Electoral backlash?

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands Beef+Lamb NZ and DairyNZ farmer directors up for re-election in the next year or two may have a battle in front of them.

Wide berth!

OPINION: The Hound reckons Groundswell needs to be careful to avoid fights it doesn't need to be part of.

Honey merger a sweet deal

Current 100% Pure New Zealand Honey chief executive Sean Goodwin is set to take on the role as head of newly merged business The Mānuka Collective.

A newly merged honey business, with hives in both the North and South Islands, is hoping to spread the exports of NZ-produced mānuka honey around the world.

Time for a change on trees

Report author Lawrence Yule says little national guidance to help local authorities stop swathes of productive sheep, beef and wool producing farmland being converted to forestry.

Urgent changes are needed around carbon farming rules to save the country's rural communities.

Feds not so COOL about rules

Andrew Hoggard says Fed Farmers is concerned by the administration compliance costs and trade implications of mandatory labelling.

New Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) regulations came into effect on 12 February and the new rules have some torn as to their impact.

Outlook mostly positive - banks

Rabobank senior agricultural analyst Emma Higgins says the outlook for dairy and meat for the coming year is positive.

Rabobank and the ANZ Bank agree that the outlook for dairy and meat for the coming year is positive, but both also have some words of warning.

Covid doesn't dampen PGW's half-year result

PGW chief executive Stephen Guerin (L) and chairman Rodger Finlay.

Rural service and supplies company PGG Wrightson (PGW) has delivered a record half-year result, despite the impact of Covid.

Emissions roadshow rolls on

Beef+Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor has been fronting the South Island leg of the HWEN roadshow.

Farmers are saying no to the ETS - that's the clear messge coming through from the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) climate consultation roadshow, according to DairyNZ and Beef+Lamb NZ.