A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
With consumer preferences changing, farmers are faced with a choice between intensive farming with all the technologies.
The benefits of pastoral goats are largely ignored in New Zealand, but these animals could be, for some hill country farmers, as important for their survival as fertiliser and fencing.
The Zespri Board last night approved plans for a new office building on its current site in Mount Maunganui.
Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) welcomes the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority (HEA) Amendment Bill passed late yesterday, says chief executive Mike Chapman.
Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling completed their partnership yesterday.
Correct design is crucial to the success of indoor barn dairy farming, says farm consultant Keith Woodford.
Inland Revenue (IRD) is not one for acknowledging the holiday season.
The voters have spoken – twice!
Your canine crusader sees that former Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden has not retired back to the farm since giving up the top job at the dairy co-op a few years back.
This old mutt notes the flurry of calls from lefty luvvies for Destiny Church to be stripped of its tax-free status.
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Your old mate wishes to express his thoughts and sympathies to the good people of Kaikoura, North Canterbury and Wellington who have endured the recent earthquakes and are now in the process of recovery and rebuilding.
Should The Hound ever be passing through Blenheim and needs a place to doss for the night he now knows where not to stay: with the local ‘clairvoyant’ Rebecca O’Sullivan, who offers accommodation via AirBnB.
Our thoughts and best wishes go out to the people in Marlborough and North Canterbury after the series of earthquake that have hit those regions recently.
The first year Bay of Plenty Trevelyans Pack and Cool store introduced ‘lean manufacturing’ it saved the company about $340,000, says managing director James Trevelyan.
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OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
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