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OPINION: Was the ASB Economic Weekly throwing shade on Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr when reporting on his speech in Washington recently?
OPINION: The Hound understands there has been quite a bit of unrest in the hort sector over the naming of a recent strategy, aimed at growing NZ hort export to $12b by 3035.
Things have got so bad that Hort NZ chief executive Nadine Tunley sent a recent message to growers defending the report’s title: Aotearoa Horticulture Action Plan.
“I have received some mixed feedback on the use of Aotearoa in the action plan’s title,” Tunley wrote.
“The choice of title was made by the Government, which initiated the plan that has been completed by our industry, working with Māori… and others with an interest in advancing our industry.”
She went on to try and further placate (rather unsuccessfully in this old mutt’s view) with this final claim: “… there is increasing emphasis on the use of te reo Māori as part of the Government’s responsibilities under the Treaty of Waitangi.”
The quest to measure, report and make sense of the energy that goes into food production has come a long way in the past 25 years.
Animal disease management agency OSPRI has announced sweeping governance changes as it seeks to recover from the expensive failure of a major software project.
Driving down Broadlands Road, northeast of Taupo there's a cluster of 19 Pāmu dairy farms around what is known as the Wairakei Estate.
Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) says the Government’s new gene editing and genetic modification reforms could leave New Zealand as an outlier on the global stage.
Weaker milk production in the Northern Hemisphere is keeping dairy prices high.
Fonterra's proposed sale of its global consumer business could fetch over $3 billion but not all proceeds will end up in the pockets of farmer shareholders.
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