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Your old mate just about choked on his bone when he read a media release from the multinational, tax dodging, perennially anti farming organisation Greenpeace calling on Feds to stop “kicking farmers”.
This followed the latest anti farming publicity stunt by Greenpeace ‘kicking farmers’ about winter grazing practices in Southland.
Paid mouthpiece Steve Able accused Feds president Katie Milne of being “unethical” and “blaming individual farmers” instead of the “systemic failure of NZ agriculture of cramming the land with too many cows”.
However, what the not-so-ethical Greenpeace’s media release did not mention was that these photos had actually been taken almost two months earlier – after unprecedented flooding in Southland – and since then the region has had one of its driest winters with no mudbound livestock winter grazing issues.
OPINION: “A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on” sums up the propaganda certain activists, bureaucrats and policymakers are spreading about the farming sector in this country.
Federated Farmers vice president Andrew Hoggard will be standing for president of the farmer lobby at this year’s annual meeting in June.
Federated Farmers vice president, Andrew Hoggard says some dairy farmers are trapped with debt.
Farmers have welcomed the Provincial Growth Fund’s decision to put $7.11 million into creating a sustainable water supply for Wairarapa.
New Zealand farming leaders are in close contact with their Australian counterparts as bushfires ravage farms across the ditch.
The government has announced a $300 million dollar capital investment in health, with $26 million going to regional and rural service projects.
The New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association (NZAAA) is up in arms about a proposed new safety levy.
Long-time goat industry advocate Garrick Batten questions why NZ meat exporters have not capitalised on the inbuilt and growing Northern American demand for goat meat.
Member of lobby group 50 Shades of Green, Mike Butterick on what the group is standing for in 2020.
For the first time in 45 years, a member of New Zealand’s wine industry has won a Nuffield Scholarship.
Accommodation offers have been pouring in from New Zealand farmers to provide a break for Australian farmers caught up in the bush fires.
A mate of yours truly reckons one only needs to look at the gongs given out in the New Year…
This old mutt was not surprised to see a number of supposed ag industry ‘thought leaders’ (a pompous title if…
