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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
Farmers don't want weaker environmental policies. Ten years ago we were fair game for the ‘dirty dairying’ remarks by Fish & Game, today not so much.
The recent visit by Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen, president of Topsector Agri and Food in the Netherlands, raised some interesting points about how New Zealand dairy farmers can learn from their Dutch counterparts.
New Zealand suffers from ‘overseas expert syndrome’: people from any other country, especially those armed with a PowerPoint presentation, know best.
Enough is enough! That’s our message to the nutter or nutters responsible for the latest food safety scare to hit the dairy industry.
Your canine crusader will be interested to see whether anything new comes out of the much-hyped MIE report due to be publicly released today.
The Hound understands the recent crowing by Massey and Lincoln universities about the ‘huge growth’ in ag student numbers this year needs to be put into perspective.
Meanwhile, it appears some readers of Slaters blog were upset at being labelled ‘nutjobs’ and ‘loosers’ (sic). Perhaps not all the blog’s readers are nutjobs or losers. However, many appear to be not only mentally unsound, but illiterate and ill-tempered as well.
Your old mate’s comments last issue about the rampant anti-Ruataniwha dam stance of blogger Cameron ‘Whaleoil’ Slater had the overly sensitive ‘major player in political views and news’ stir up his cesspool of sycophantic acolytes to cry like babies on his behalf.
Rural Contractors New Zealand is questioning why the Government has made changes to immigration rules to help Queenstown employers recruit much needed staff, but continues to ignore similar requests from the rural contracting sector.
Australian farmers are hearing that good times are coming: a top economic researcher predicts farm production will increase 5.3% to about A$54.4 billion next financial year.
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Switching careers to dairy farming paid off for the three winners of the 2015 Auckland/Hauraki Dairy Industry Awards.
Farmers with multiple farms can now see the consolidated financial position of all those farms together using a new reporting system from CRS Software, Masterton.
The GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction slumped overnight, after six straight increases.
Northland College will open its farm gates tomorrow to the public to show how the school is using the farm to prepare its students for careers in agriculture.
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