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OPINION: The Hound reckons if farmers in this country think they've got a problem with the small-minded officious bureaucrats imposing unworkable rules with little or no understanding of agricultural realities - it could be worse.

OPINION: The French Government is buckling under the pressure of rising inflation.

The New Zealand Government looks set to vest the control of water to four regional authorities under its Three Waters policy, having already spent $34m on developing the concept and committing to office space in Auckland to house its 350+ staff and consultants that will cost at least $2.1m annually.

The last day of an agricultural show which saw more than half a million visitors had to be cancelled due to Covid-19.

New Zealanders Graeme and Julie Bott have created a successful wine estate in one of France’s most famous wine regions.

A French research organisation studying the effects of climate change on viticulture, is hoping to partner up with New Zealand grape growers, through a collaboration with the NZWRC.

Recently there has been considerable media coverage of the news that New Zealand wine has become the number three imported wine into the US, with only France and Italy ahead of us.

When French farmers are unhappy they take to the streets. Last week, 1000 tractors rolled into Paris as French farmers tried to clog up the capital’s roads in protest at plummeting food prices.

French dairy processor Danone is still feeling the after-effects of Fonterra’s false botulism scare in the Chinese market.

Until the early 1990’s Claas was known as a manufacturer of harvesting machinery for the grain and livestock industries, but that changed in 1993.