Top Māori farm faces costly rebuild after severe storm damage
One of the country's top Māori farms faces a long and costly rebuild to get the property back to where it was before recent storms ripped through it.
OPINION: First on the scene after the recent devastating storms in parts of the North Island were emergency services and selfless members of the public.
Close behind them were the increasingly tone-deaf climate activists – not to lend a hand or support, but to push the same single-issue obsession that they bore people with at parties.
Most decent Kiwis know there’s a time and place for pushing your political agenda and it’s not while volunteers are still clearing roads and digging slip victims out of the rubble.
Unfortunately, there were like-minded climate obsessives in the media and in Parliament doing the same thing.
Your old mate has seen this tone-deaf barracking here and overseas and reckons their lack of common decency and respect is a key reason people are tiring of their ‘the sky is falling’ message.
DairyNZ Chair Tracy Brown has seen a lot of change since she first started out in the dairy sector, with around one-third of dairy farmers now women.
Castle Ridge Station has been named the Regional Supreme Winner at the Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
The South Island Dairy Event has announced Jessica Findlay as the recipient of the BrightSIDE Scholarship Programme, recognising her commitment to furthering her education and future career in the New Zealand dairy industry.
New Zealand and Chile have signed a new arrangement designed to boost agricultural cooperation and drive sector success.
New DairyNZ research will help farmers mitigate the impacts of heat stress on herds in high-risk regions of the country.
Budou are being picked now in Bridge Pā, the most intense and exciting time of the year for the Greencollar team – and the harvest of the finest eating grapes is weeks earlier than expected.

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