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 pointed him to a snippet in a recent newsletter from Wairarapa ram breeder Derek Daniel's Wairere Romney, which he found rather alarming.
According to the newsletter, under the Government's new 'plain language' legislation, every government department is going to have to employ a 'plain language commissioner' to ensure any information coming out of said government department is 'understandable' and that 'officials communicate clearly with the public as part of a bid to improve accessibility for all parts of society'.
Your old mate suggests this is a big ask, as how much information coming out of government is ever understandable?
So now we will see more layers of government bureaucracy in the form of plain language police running around looking over the shoulders of all the public servants, checking on their language?
The mind boggles.
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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