Why?
OPINION: A mate of yours truly wants to know why the beef schedule differential is now more than 45-50 cents a kilo between North and South Island producers – if you look at February 2024 steer prices.
Your old mate shook his head in disbelief on hearing an Ashburton farmer was fined $10,000 for removing matagouri bushes without council permission.
Now call Hound a non tree-hugger but, let’s face it, matagouri is hardly a threatened species and it’s not like it’s a ‘500-year-old’ kauri. In fact, matagouri is a real prick of a problem for many farmers, so what is up with the mandarins at Ashburton council? Some critics claim the council has generated revenue from this minor slip-up by applying the Resource Management Act in this way. As a mate of yours truly commented, “No wonder council bureaucrats rarely voice support for RMA reform when they are on to a cash cow like that.”
Federated Farmers claims that the Otago Regional Council is charging ahead unnecessarily with piling more regulation on rural communities.
Dairy sheep and goat farmers are being told to reduce milk supply as processors face a slump in global demand for their products.
OPINION: We have good friends from way back who had lived in one of our major cities for many years.
Listed Canterbury milk processor Synlait’s shares have been placed in a trading halt.
OPINION: Even before the National-led coalition came into power, India was very much at the fore of its trade agenda.
A step-by-step guide helping farmers through the process of creating a Freshwater Farm Plan (FWFP) has been launched by FarmIQ.
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