Are they serious?
OPINION: The Greens aren’t serious people when it comes to the economy, so let’s not spend too much on their fiscal fantasies.
OPINION: Landcorp is putting a brave face on its latest result, highlighting its progress on KPIs like climate change and gender pay gaps.
Your old mate was more interested in how much they added to the Crown accounts.
As Landcorp says in its 2024 report, it manages "nearly 360,000ha over 112 farms across the motu".
That's a $2 billion asset base, on which Landcorp returned a $20m net operating profit (NOP).
However, times have been tough, with falling product prices hitting revenue and earnings, and they made a $26m net loss after tax.
For comparisons sake, that's 39% lower than the $33m NOP of the prior year, where they lost a mere $9m after tax - on a $2b asset base.
Surely, that's the KPI that's going to matter most to a cash-strapped government?
Dairy farmers are set to benefit from the radical sweeping changes the Government is planning to make to the regulations that form part of the Resource Management Act (RMA).
The reported surge in interest in dairy conversions should be put into the context of falling overall cow numbers and improving environmental performance, says DairyNZ.
New Zealand's top trade official has told dairy farmers that their sector faces the most trade barriers internationally.
Waikato sharemilker Matthew Zonderop had no inkling that one day he would become a matchmaker for cows.
The coveted post of Federated Farmers' national dairy chair will see a two-way contest at the Federated Farmers annual meeting later this month.
Research lending to the production of dairy products that benefit the elderly and improves the overall wellbeing of all people is a key focus of Fonterra's Research and Development centre, based in Palmerston North.
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