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New tricks from food science at international conference

Can discarded beef skins become premium dog food? Would camel milk work for your morning flat white? These are just two of the questions that will be answered next week at an international conference in Palmerston North.

New ag degrees at Massey

approach is a pragmatic, commonsense one that will “allow farmers to get on with farming without a heap of needless cost and complexity that added very little environmental benefit”.

Changing skill demands and new job opportunities in the primary sector have prompted Massey University to create a new degree course and add a significant major into another in 2025.

Food charity to hold online auction

According to studies by the Ministry of Health, food insecurity continues to affect many New Zealanders, with nearly 1 in 5 Kiwi households experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity.

Meat the Need, New Zealand’s dedicated charity delivering locally sourced protein meals to food-insecure communities, is launching an online National Charity Auction.

GE release 'will taint NZ's reputation, cost billions'

Paul Bosher says proposed changes would allow gene-edited organisms into NZ agriculture with no testing of market acceptance and contamination risk.

OPINION: At the September Fonterra results meeting in Waihi, I raised concerns about the viability and risks of releasing GE in New Zealand.

Co-ops benefit your business

OPINION: How do you keep a farming business viable?

Leaky waka

OPINION: Was the ASB Economic Weekly throwing shade on Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr when reporting on his speech in Washington recently?

Know-it-alls

OPINION: A reader recently had a shot at the various armchair critics that she judged to be more than a bit preachy, telling sheep farmers how they "must learn" and "embrace change" and various other platitudes that armchair critics bandy about on LinkedIn and on the speaker circuit in 'NZ agbiz'.

Mixed legacy

OPINION: You're never as good as when you're dead, and with due respect to Theo Spierings' family, the Hound can't let the death of the former Fonterra CEO pass without mentioning the parlous state he left Fonterra in when he exited in 2018 - having pocketed well north of $30 million over seven years.

Dead in the water

OPINION: In a victory for common sense over virtue signalling, David Parker's National Policy Statement (NPS) work on freshwater is now dead in the water.