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A lesson in political science

Beef + Lamb NZ’s chief executive Sam McIvor.

The Zero Carbon Bill has just been passed into law, but not without significant misgivings from across the farming sector.

RMA not good enough

New Zealand's natural environment is now much more degraded than when the Resource Management Act was developed in 1991.

Fonterra chairman feels the heat

Fonterra chairman John Monaghan (right), former director Simon Israel (centre) and director Peter McBride at the co-op’s AGM.

Frustrated Fonterra farmers called for chairman John Monaghan to take responsibility for the co-op’s financial debacle and step down.

Government can’t see the wood for the trees

About 1000 farmers and rural people assemble in Wellington’s civic square before marching to parliament.

About 1000 people from around rural New Zealand marched on Parliament last week to protest the Government’s policies on planting trees.

Uncertainty causing angst

National’s agriculture spokesman Todd Muller.

The culmination of some poorly thought-out government policies is to blame for low morale in the agri sector, says National’s agriculture spokesman Todd Muller.

No threat to farming from forestry

OPINION: There’s some agitation out there at the moment about farming being under threat from forestry. Much of what’s circulating is based on misinformation so it’s time to lay out the facts.

Tree protest this week

50 Shades of Green says it is not anti trees, but believes the right trees should be in the right places.

The protest group ‘50 Shades of Green’ is organising a march on Parliament this week to try and stop good farmland being covered in pine trees.

Strawberry growers back sector levy

The levy is aimed to help modernise NZ’s $35m strawberry industry.

A levy will help modernise the $35 million strawberry industry, says Michael Ahern, executive manager of Strawberry Growers NZ Inc.

He’s just mad about saffron

Geoff Slater with the crocus corms he will soon be lifting, separating and replanting in a major expansion to his saffron farm. Photo: Rural News Group.

“I always reckoned you could make a living off 10 acres,” says Canterbury saffron grower Geoff Slater.

Cherry on top for station’s returns

Mt Pisa Station’s landowners, the MacMillan family, are also investors in a $15.5 million cherry projet on their property by horticultural investment firm Hortinvest.

Twelve hectares of cherry trees planted in September at Mt Pisa Station, Central Otago complete the first stage of a $15.5 million cherry project by the horticultural investment firm Hortinvest.