Faking it
OPINION: Demand for red meat is booming, while it seems the heyday of plant-based protein is well past its 'best…
While big players Honda, Yamaha and Polaris are getting ready to pull the pin on the Australian quad bike market, CFMOTO is in the market for the long haul.
National’s agriculture spokesman, David Bennett on how the sector is key to New Zealand’s economic rebuild.
Don’t blame the European Union for its “unacceptable” offer to NZ agriculture in current FTA negotiations, blame David Parker, says National's trade spokesman.
Farmers are throwing their support behind the Farm Debt Mediation Scheme.
A debt mediation scheme to help farmers in financial distress deal with their lenders starts today.
OPINION: This old mutt has always believed that any hopes of a possible free trade deal – that is any good – between NZ and the EU were about as elusive as an honest politician.
OPINION: WorkSafe and workplace safety legislation dominate the daily operations of the private sector, including farms.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound’s reckons the self-proclaimed champion of the provinces, and mouth of the North, Shane Jones, needs to be little more careful about how he publicises the way he spends taxpayer money.
OPINION: Your canine crusader notes that media outfit Stuff, which was bought for the princely sum of $1 (with many believing it overpriced at that), recently carried an expose about companies in the kiwifruit sector claiming the wage subsidy.
Fonterra shareholders have delivered a damning assessment of their elected Shareholders Council.
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A whole generation of farmers don’t seem to know about the advantages of feeding NZ-grown grain to livestock, claims Jeremy Talbot.
The Non-Proprietary and Uncertified Herbage Seeds Levy order will continue for another six years.
Scientists are calling for urgent action following the discovery of a new strain of swine flu.
Farming groups have described the newly passed emissions trading reform legislation as a ‘slap in the face’ that will not reduce the country’s carbon emissions.
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OPINION: The previous government spent too much during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite warnings from officials, according to a briefing released…
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