Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other by limits on further yield increases.
OPINION: Ther'es a reason politicians rank even lower than John Campbell in the most trusted profession surveys.
Just when we think they've kicked an unpopular policy to touch, they repackage it and try to sneak it past the goalkeeper in a different form.
The current mob tried with its climate change taxation of the rural sector and are at it again with 'Ute Tax 2.0'.
Fed Farmers wants Revenue Minister Simon Watts to urgently rule out changes to Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) that will apply to utes and could cost farmers thousands of dollars, ongoing.
Feds say the previous Ute Tax was bad enough, but at least it was a one-off cost.
These new FBT charges would be annual and cost farmers an arm and a leg each year.
With their polls cratering, National need to put the IRD back on the chain.
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…