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The rewards of good data

Beef + Lamb New Zealand's Economic Service executive director Rob Davison was recently awarded for his outstanding contribution to the primary sector.

New Zealand's primary sector is our equivalent of the USA’s Silicon Valley of excellence.

Slow down and smell the flowers!

OPINION: I have been a regular reader for a number of years now, the last couple of decades in particular. Not so long ago, I was reading around 40 books each year.

Great idea

OPINION: Your old mate has long argued Landcorp’s farming business – Pamu – is a bigger dog than he is.

Unemployable?

OPINION: Your canine crusader shakes his head at the complete lack of practical and real-world knowledge in both government and the bureaucracy.

Good idea

OPINION: A mate of the Hound’s suggests there is an easy solution to farming sector concerns about more trees being planted to meet the country’s carbon emissions targets.

Hats off!

OPINION: Your old mate was a little confused by Maori Party MP Rawiri Waititi’s stance over not wanting to wear a tie in Parliament’s debating chamber.

Editorial: Better connection, now!

TUANZ chief executive Craig Young says organisations need to be aware, while moving online, that traditional means are necessary for some users.

OPINION: We may now be into the third decade of the 21^st century, but unfortunately much of NZ’s rural broadband and mobile coverage remains at third world levels.