Strange bedfellows
OPINION: Two types of grifters have used the sale of Fonterra's consumer brands as a platform to push their own agendas - under the guise of 'caring about the country'.
OPINION: The Hound reckons multi-national, tax-dodging, fundraising ‘charity’ Greenpeace is fast losing whatever little credibility it has with it latest anti-farming rant.
According to is its ‘agriculture spokesperson’ Christine Rose – who in a previous life was a bike-riding Auckland regional councillor – the dairy industry is NZ’s ‘worst’ climate polluter.
“Fonterra, and other dairy corporations like it, are polluting our climate with superheating methane and nitrous oxide gases,” Rose claims.
“Worsening the climate crisis and contributing to the devastating extreme weather events we’re seeing around the world - from Cyclone Gabrielle here in Aotearoa to the fires in Maui, Hawai’i.”
It is hard to take Rose and her screaming skull colleagues seriously when they make these kind of extremist and outlandish claims.
A Hawke's Bay farming family of self-confessed 'frequent flyers' has donated the proceeds from their spring lambs.
Biosecurity New Zealand is intensifying its campaign to locate and eliminate the invasive yellow-legged hornet, following confirmed detections on Auckland's North Shore.
Following a recent director election, Canterbury farmer Sean Molloy has been appointed to the New Zealand Pork Industry Board.
Red meat farmers and processors are welcoming a US Government announcement - removing its reciprocal tariffs on a range of food products, including New Zealand beef.
OPINION: As negotiations advance on the India-New Zealand FTA, it’s important to remember the joint commitment made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at the beginning of this process in March: for a balanced, ambitious, comprehensive, and mutually beneficial agreement.
Minister for Universities, Shane Reti, has opened the final new build in a ten plus year project to upgrade the veterinary facilities at Massey University.

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