Oat Dear!
OPINION: The UK dairy industry is celebrating a win after plant-based drink maker Oatly lost a long-running legal battle over its use of the word "milk" in its marketing.
This old mutt understands the country’s trendy, woke, vegan community (all four of them) is taking time out from being outraged at everything Donald Trump has ever done, to concern themselves about an oat milk shortage in NZ.
Apparently, anaemic trendy café goers around the country are getting in a tizz as their local vegan-friendly baristas run dry on their favourite plant-based milk.
Now the poor wee darlings are demanding New Zealand invest in its own plant-based milk factory, possibly converting a cow milk plant.
According to one of these delicate petals, “the country risks falling out of line with global trends if it doesn’t get on board with plant-based milk.
New Zealand has lots of massive dairy factories; we need to transition that infrastructure to dairy free”.
Or, as the Hound suggests, they just take advantage of the NZ dairy sector’s excellent ability to turn fresh grass into natural, tasty and healthy milk!
The 2026 Holstein Friesian NZ Young Breeders Development Programme is off to a strong start, with this year's intake coming together for their first event on March 18 and 19.
State farmer Pāmu (Landcorp) has announced it will pay a $10 million special dividend to the Crown off the back of a strong outlook for the business and a capital repayment of $9.5 million following Fonterra's consumer business sale.
OPINION: As the fuel crisis hits the country and rural New Zealand in particular, perhaps it's time to turn to one of the kaumatua of the rural sector, Pita Alexander - farm accountant, advisor and a source of knowledge and insightfulness.
Katie Milne, former Federated Farmers president, has been announced as the National Party’s candidate for the West Coast-Tasman electorate.
Alliance has announced two key appointments within its senior leadership team.
A Rangitikei farmer has been indefinitely banned from owning animals and sentenced to serve 9 months and 3 weeks’ home detention following animal welfare failures that caused the death of more than 140 animals.

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