Keeping a watch on dairy farms
OPINION: Dairy farmers are under increasing pressure to safeguard their livestock, equipment and operations from a range of security threats.
Your canine crusader suggests a vegan diet may not only be bad for your health, but it also can damage your sense of humour.
It is not hard to draw this conclusion, looking at an advertising campaign to promote Australian lamb that has upset vegans, who are calling it "discriminatory". The action movie style advert shows a SWAT team saving stranded Australians around the world who missing the famous Australia Day barbeque. The BBC says at least 250 complaints have been made to the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) – mainly by vegans. In one scene, a SWAT team smashes into the home of a man in New York saying: "C'mon mate, in a few hours you'll be eating lamb on the beach", to which the bearded man responds: "But I'm a vegan now". The ad then cuts to a shot of a flamethrower-wielding SWAT officer burning a bowl of kale on the table.
'Common sense' cuts to government red tape will make it easier for New Zealand to deliver safe food to more markets.
Balclutha farmer Renae Martin remembers the moment she fell in love with cows.
Academic freedom is a privilege and it's put at risk when people abuse it.
All eyes are on milk production in New Zealand and its impact on global dairy prices in the coming months.
Claims that some Southland farmers were invoiced up to $4000 for winter grazing compliance checks despite not breaching rules are being rejected by Environment Southland.
According to the most recent Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey, farmer confidence has inched higher, reaching its second highest reading in the last decade.