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OPINION: Your old mate hears some of the recent uptick in farmer confidence has slipped since the political polls started…
Four years into a world-first attempt to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis), agreed jointly between the Government and farming sector groups, just one infected property remains in New Zealand.
OPINION: Your old mate notes that the PM has made a big thing out of her government's supposedly 'be kind' mantra.
OPINION: Your canine crusader wants to know just what drugs the politicians and bureaucrats are on in Wellington.
OPINION: When Covid-19 first arrived in New Zealand, PM Jacinda Ardern made great play of the fact that it would be the primary sector - and that means rural NZ - would be the saviour of the economy.
News that NZ and the UK have agreed 'in principle' to the terms of the free trade agreement (FTA) will come as welcome news to the dairy sector.
OPINION: When it comes to hedging between the world's two superpowers, the US and China, no one does it better than the New Zealand Government.
OPINION: The refusal of both Damien O'Connor and PM Jacinda Ardern to release some of the correspondence they received about Groundswell begs a question or two.
The contribution of NZ's kiwifruit industry came in for some high praise at a special function at Parliament, just before the latest Covid lockdowns.