UK Ag Lender Oxbury Enters New Zealand with Livestock Finance Focus
Specialist agriculture lender Oxbury has entered the New Zealand market, offering livestock finance to farmers.
OPINION: The good fight against "banking wokery" continues with a draft bill to scrap the red tape forcing banks and financial institutions to make climate-related disclosures, by repealing Part 7A of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013.
Architect of the bill, ACT rural communities spokesperson Mark Cameron says, "Farmers are already seeing discrimination creeping into interest rates based on perceived emissions. They fear they'll be the next to be 'debanked', not because of financial risk, but because they don't fit the agenda of the suit-and-tie bigwigs. We've already seen it happening to essential industries like mining and service stations."
Your old mate reckons three cheers for anything that knocks back these rules, which are the ultimate virtue signal.
They reduce banking competition and force significant costs on lenders - and therefore borrowers - for no environmental gain.
The closure of the McCain processing plant and the recent announcement of 300 job losses at Wattie’s underscore the mounting pressure facing New Zealand’s manufacturing sector, Buy NZ Made says.
Specialist agriculture lender Oxbury has entered the New Zealand market, offering livestock finance to farmers.
New research suggests Aotearoa New Zealand farmers are broadly matching phosphorus fertiliser use to the needs of their soils, helping maintain relatively stable nutrient levels across the country’s agricultural land.
Helensville farmers, Donald and Kirsten Watson of Moreland Pastoral, have been named the Auckland Regional Supreme Winners at the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Marc and Megan Lalich were named 2026 Share Farmers of the Year at last night's Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards.
William John Poole, a third year Agribusiness student at Massey University, has been awarded the Dr Warren Parker and Pāmu Scholarship.

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