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: A mate of the Hound's reckons recent over-the-top coverage about Lake Hawea station owners Geoff and Justine Ross as the first 'farmers' in NZ to have their carbon footprint certified, is an insult to the sector.
He points out that the couple - much like Hollywood movie director and Wairarapa-based 'farmer' James Cameron - just love to talk a bit game and tell farmers how to suck eggs.
However, in Cameron's case, it was recently discovered that the Hollywood mogul's big plans for replacing evil, carbon-belching livestock with vegetables has now made way for more lucrative dairy grazing.
Meanwhile, Ross - who has been farming for all of five minutes and made all his money marketing and selling over-hyped vodka and over-priced craft beer - is now being pimped out by a government-owned business, via an expensive public relations firm, as the exemplar of NZ farming.
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.
Recent results from its 2024 financial year has seen global farm machinery player John Deere record a significant slump in the profits of its agricultural division over the last year, with a 64% drop in the last quarter of the year, compared to that of 2023.
An agribusiness, helping to turn a long-standing animal welfare and waste issue into a high-value protein stream for the dairy and red meat sector, has picked up a top innovation award at Fieldays.
The Fieldays Innovation Award winners have been announced with Auckland’s Ruminant Biotech taking out the Prototype Award.
Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).
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