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OPINION: Your old mate's ear has been chewed off recently by farmers voicing their displeasure with the National Party, particularly relating to how they're treating their farmer base.
In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.
It doled out $6 million to support NZ manuka honey producers' legal case to trademark the name 'manuka', which has again been lost.
New Zealand's trademarks commissioner has declined the Government and iwi-backed bid by NZ honey producers to trademark the term "manuka honey".
It ruled that the term was not sufficiently inherently distinct for any one group or company to own it.
This follows on from a similar failed case in the UK and China where New Zealand's Mānuka Honey Appellation Society attempt to assert ownership of the brand was also defeated.
Thus far, Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor has declined to say whether the Government will support an appeal of this latest decision.
Global trade wars and uncertain tariff regimes could play into the hands of many New Zealand exporters, according to Gareth Coleman ANZ’s Head of Trade & Supply Chain.
The long running trade dispute between NZ and Canada appears to be over.
Herd improvement company LIC has ended the 2024-25 financial year in a strong position - debt-free and almost quadrupling its net profit.
There's been widespread support from the primary sector for the Government's move to put the brakes on local authorities to do any more work on planning changes ahead of major changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA).
Rural health advocates say the Government's decision to establish a new medical school at the University of Waikato augurs well for the rural sector.
People affected by the recent two severe flood events in the Tasman district are weary and exhausted trying to deal with the devastation on their farms and orchards, according to the head of the Rural Support Trust (RST) in the region.
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