Job losses worry meat sector
New Zealand's meat processing industry says, while it supports moves away from coal, it has some major concerns about cuts to livestock numbers as proposed in the recent Climate Change Commission’s draft report.
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 MIE’s ‘our way or the highway’ attitude of pushing for meat sector reforms has turned off most of the meat companies, as well as many of the bureaucrats and politicians who they will need onside to get anything changed. This old mutt has observed how the MIE team have been quick to ‘diss’ anyone who dares not to agree with their worldview or questions their ideas, and he wonders if they will remain cantankerous and thin-skinned, as this has not helped their cause one iota.
Managing director of Woolover Ltd, David Brown, has put a lot of effort into verifying what seems intuitive, that keeping newborn stock's core temperature stable pays dividends by helping them realise their full genetic potential.
Within the next 10 years, New Zealand agriculture will need to manage its largest-ever intergenerational transfer of wealth, conservatively valued at $150 billion in farming assets.
Boutique Waikato cheese producer Meyer Cheese is investing in a new $3.5 million facility, designed to boost capacity and enhance the company's sustainability credentials.
OPINION: The Government's decision to rule out changes to Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) that would cost every farmer thousands of dollars annually, is sensible.
Compensation assistance for farmers impacted by Mycoplama bovis is being wound up.
Selecting the reverse gear quicker than a lovestruck boyfriend who has met the in-laws for the first time, the Coalition Government has confirmed that the proposal to amend Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) charged against farm utes has been canned.
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