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.
THIS OLD mutt has always been suspicious about our cousins from across the ditch.
Not only do they bowl underarm, claim our actors and musicians as their own and talk funny, but their biggest sin is the quality of their pies. A recent newspaper investigation revealed Aussie ‘meat’ pies are less than one-third meat (and chicken nuggets contain only 50% chicken meat). Pies sold by the big supermarket chains barely exceed the minimum government standard of 25% meat. The Australian government standard for meat pies is 25 % fat-free flesh. Yum!
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).