Greenpeace should lose charitable status - Feds
Federated Farmers is arguing for controversial environmentalist group Greenpeace to be stripped of its charitable status.
OPINION: PM Chris Luxon is getting pinged lately for rolling out the old 'we're still a new government' line when challenged on a perceived lack of progress on various policy promises.
After 18 months in office, that just won't cut it anymore.
Federated Farmers is the latest to call time on the current mob occupying the Beehive, demanding action on National's pre-election promise to change KiwiSaver rules to help young farmers to get a foot on the farming ladder.
The Nats might be struggling to remember all the promises they chucked out last election, but Feds dairy chair Richard McIntyre remembers.
"They made that campaign promise in Morrinsville, but 18 months later there has been no action."
The Hound agrees, it's time for a change in policy to give young farmers a tangible pathway to ownership and investment in agriculture.
Another milestone has been reached in the fight against Mycoplasma bovis with the compensation assistance service being wound up after helping more than 1300 farmers.
The Government’s directive for state farmer Landcorp Farming (trading as Pamu) to lifts its performance is yielding results.
The move to bring bovine TB testing in-house at Ospri officially started this month, as a team of 37 skilled and experienced technicians begin work with the disease eradication agency.
OPINION: For most farmers and readers, the term Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will make little sense.
A conference providing insights into how precision tools and technologies are shaping the future of the dairy industry will be held in New Zealand in December.
State farmer Pāmu has appointed Roz Urbahn as its new chief corporate services officer.
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OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…