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Young couple show how it’s done

Tony and Briar Lunjevich have increased their equity by $500k in 2-3 years.

A young dairy farming couple have increased their equity by at least $500,000 in two-three years on a less-than-ideal Far North farm and despite two years of low dairy payout.

Livestock play vital environmental role

Food and environmental activists are on record as suggesting New Zealand should be ruminant-free to create a cleaner greener country.

UK retailer eyes $19m of Kiwi R&D

Technology developed in New Zealand could save sheepmeat suppliers to a big UK supermarket chain $19 million annually, says the developer.

Evaluating the optimal use of land

Debate continues about what primary sector activities will be ‘best’ for New Zealand.

When uncertainty is the only certainty

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”

Good idea

The Hound likes moves by the Australian government to pass a law that will force animal rights activists to hand over visual evidence of animal cruelty to relevant authorities promptly, instead of delaying its release to bolster emotive, anti-farming media-driven campaigns.

Yeah, right

This old mutt reckons Fonterra shareholders council chairman Duncan Coull has done nothing to dispel the oft-heard claim that his group is merely a lapdog of the Fonterra board.

Same old

Your old mate understands that while lobby group Fish & Game may have a new head in place it has not changed its anti-farming tune one bit.

Not a peep!

Hard on the heels of NZ First’s lack of complaints over the sale of iconic NZ company Icebreaker to US interests, news that multi-national syndicate Craigmore Permanent Crop Ltd Partnership recently bought 17.5ha of kiwifruit orchards in Te Puke did not so much as raise a peep from the bauble-takers.