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THE HOUND wonders if Labour’s primary industries spokesman Damien O’Connor’s increasingly shrill digs at targets in the sector including Fonterra, Zespri, MPI and the TPP trade negotiations, to name a few, have more to do with internal frustrations than anything else.
It is understood O’Connor was close to former leader David Shearer, but not so with current boss David Cunliffe. Talk around the traps is that in any future Labour/Green coalition, Labour may offer the primary industries portfolio to the Greens as one of their cabinet positions, rather than give up labour or education which are closer to its base.
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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