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: Your canine crusader reckons people should be very skeptical of video footage supplied to TV news by vested interests.
Two examples of this were recently played on the forever-going-broke tabloid TV channel Newshub.
The first was footage of a security guard appearing to kick an anti-marina protestor in the face at Waiheke Island.
However, trouble was the video, supplied by the protestors, cut out the part where the same protestor had first kicked a security guard in the head numerous times and nearly drowned him!
The other footage shown on Newshub was of cows deep in mud in Southland, displaying terrible winter grazing practice.
However, this video was supplied by an anti-winter grazing activist who is funded by Greenpeace.
Questions have now been raised about this footage being doctored and not even current, but from last year.
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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