State Farmer Delivers Solid Half-Year Result
State farmer Landcorp, trading as Pamu, is a forecasting a full-year net profit of around $100 million.
OPINION: The Hound was not surprised to see that Pāmu – better known as state farmer Landcorp – has been told to tidy up its business model and better concentrate on actually farming.
It seems even the previous government – not widely known for its business acumen – was not impressed by the way Pāmu is operating.
This led to former State Owned Enterprises Minister Duncan Webb writing to the government-owned farmer’s board instructing it to “concentrate its core business and commercial disciplines”.
This is something your old mate has been calling on for years.
Perhaps the new government will now take a look at Pamū’s board appointments and actually pick people with more farming knowledge and skills – rather than allocating such roles based on woke ideals such as gender and racial diversity that seemed to be the previous administration’s MO!
Dairy Women's Network (DWN) has announced that Taranaki dairy farmer Nicola Bryant will join its Trust Board as an Associate Trustee.
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) says it welcomes the release of a new report into pay equity.
Red meat exports to key quota markets enjoyed $1.4 billion in tariff savings in the 2024-25 financial year.
Remediation NZ (RNZ) has been fined more than $71,000 for discharging offensive odours described by neighbours as smelling like ‘faecal and pig effluent’ from its compositing site near Uruti in North Taranaki.
Two kiwifruit orchards in the Bay of Plenty and one in Northland are this year's finalists for the Ahuwhenua Trophy competition.
The Government's chief science advisor, Dr John Roche says the key objective for the science sector in the coming year is bedding down the reforms which sees the merger of the previous entities.

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