Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
Meat company Silver Fern Farms is launching the first sea-freight container shipment of chilled beef as well as multiple air-freight orders of beef and lamb set for Chinese customers.
An animal health academic is urging best practice as a means of precluding the spread of disease.
Having people of differing expertise visit her farm to view and offer advice was extremely valuable, says 2017 Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Awards finalist Nic Leary.
Alternative proteins, meat-based snacks, insects, new types of packaging, eating on-the-go, 3D printing of food: change is coming fast and rural professionals need to get with it, says Meat & Livestock Australia’s Christine Pitt.
People often like to talk about the good old days.
Call at the Affco Horotiu stockyards any time between 5am and 5pm on any day and the chances are Mike Winikerei will be there.
A ground-breaking prototype methane recovery system on a 950 cow farm in Southland has demonstrated for the first time the commercial viability of this technology in a cool climate.
Provisional tax has long been difficult to get right and expensive to get wrong.
Cambridge farm software entrepreneur Peter Floyd believes soils’ power as a carbon sink warrants more investigation and funding.
Your canine crusader sees that multi-national, tax-dodging, political activist lobby group Greenpeace is whining about the ‘privacy intrusion’ on its staff.
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This old mutt is not surprised to see that the smug tourism sector, which has been quick to jump on the anti-farming bandwagon with clean water campaigners, is all take and no give on the environment.
The Hound keeps despairing at the poor knowledge and appreciation of farming in NZ.
Your old mate is not surprised the general population has such a low opinion of local government and local councils.
The discovery of the cow disease Mycoplasma bovis in South Canterbury last month again raised concerns among farmers about NZ’s biosecurity measures and responsiveness.
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Gaslight much?
OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…
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