Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
OPINION: Your canine crusader reckons it’s hard not to see why the Government is seen as anti-farming.
OPINION: The Hound sees that all the virtue signalling and talk about how good it is is not paying off for Government-owned farmer Landcorp.
OPINION: Your old mate notes that the farming haters at Bitch & Complain (Fish & Game) are now parroting the ‘progressive’ words of both Beef+Lamb and Dairy NZ chairs Andrew Morrison and Jim van der Poel, while demonising Fed Farmers in F&G’s ongoing campaign against the ag sector.
OPINION: This old mutt reckons it’s no wonder the agri-based Lincoln University is going down the tubes.
OPINION: That old saying ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ should be rephrased: ‘lies, damned lies and environmental lobby-commissioned research’.
Māori farming organisations are increasing their investment in horticulture.
At least 50% of New Zealand farmers identify succession planning as an issue for them, their family and their farm business.
Politics, whether national or local body, is not for the faint-hearted.
From a sheep and beef farming background, Chilton has been an instructor on the Christchurch Men’s Prison farm for about 20 years.
Suggest to farm manager Warren Chilton that he is farming people as much as he is farming animals and he readily agrees.
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The New Zealand Agritech Story launched last week by Trade and Enterprise will make a key difference for export companies in the $1.5 billion sector, says an industry leader.
A Canterbury district council wants a rewrite of proposed regional council rules for excluding stock from waterways.
The Government’s proposed nitrogen target for mid-Canterbury isn’t attainable, says Canterbury dairy farmer and industry leader Colin Glass.
Hackles rose over freshwater issues at a packed public meeting in Christchurch earlier this month.
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