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…
Combine New Zealand lamb with 40 keen foodies, a celebrity chef, barbecue equipment, spectacular alpine scenery... and a forecast for snow. What have you got? Winter Grillcamp – a Beef + Lamb New Zealand promotion in Germany.
Four young chefs and eight journalists from Germany have had a three-week tour of top New Zealand restaurants and other sites courtesy of Deer Industry New Zealand.
SUGGESTIONS THAT GPS-guided fertiliser spreading will deliver “major savings” miss a swathe of more fundamental problems with nutrient application in New Zealand, says a farmer with much expertise in the area.
HAWKE’S BAY is empty of stock says Bruce Wills, a local and the national president of Federated Farmers.
FONTERRA WILL this week hold the first of 50 meetings with farmer suppliers on the new Sustainable Dairying Water Accord.
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST dairy processor says farmers must stop blaming the supermarkets for poor farmgate returns.
GLOBAL GROWTH opportunities for New Zealand agriculture will continue, says ASB’s general manager rural Mark Heer.
RAVENSDOWN’S NEW chief executive Greg Campbell says he’s looking forward to refreshing the farmer-owned cooperative’s strategy.
THE CHIEF organiser of the 8th International Sheep Veterinarian Congress, held in Rotorua last month, says he has had nothing but positive comment about the four-day conference.
ASB is showing “corporate responsibility” by offering a rural environmental compliance loan at low cost, says ASB general manager rural Mark Heer.
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“SUSTAINABILITY’ IS the dairy industry’s buzzword for 2013.
EVER BEEN to a conference where a speaker goes on and on and on and won’t stop? The Hound has learned a way of cutting that person off on cue.
YOUR OLD mate is constantly amazed at what terribly dour and sad lives some people lead, especially those of the do-gooder persuasion.
DURING THE last week of February Fonterra and RD1 ran “the biggest fencing promotion RD1 has ever run,” according to its joint PR-blurb.
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Save us from SAFE
OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
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