Picking winners?
OPINION: Every time politicians come up with an investment scheme where they're going to have a crack at 'picking winners'…
Staff from Pāmu or Landcorp dairy farms have been busy helping with the recovery operation around Westport.
OPINION: Your old mate has long argued Landcorp’s farming business – Pamu – is a bigger dog than he is.
Running an organic dairy farm is a bit like living on an island where one has to be completely self-sufficient.
Falling land and livestock prices have hit the state-owned farmer Landcorp – known as Pāmu – in the financial year to 30 June.
State-owned farmer Pāmu has been able to reduce nitrogen input on its Waimakariri dairy farm while maintaining milk and grass production, by using fertigation – the application of fertiliser through irrigation.
Your canine crusader notes that the woke folk at Landcorp – sorry Pāmu – were recently crowing about recording a net profit after tax of $68 million for the half-year ended 31 December 2019.
State farmer Pāmu (Landcorp Farming Limited) has made a net profit after tax of $68 million for the half-year ended December 31, 2019.
Well-known Southland farmer and agribusinessman Keith Neylon has just penned a no-holds barred biography.
State farmer Pāmu has introduced a programme on its Northland farms to ensure that kiwi are protected from farm dogs.

OPINION: Every time politicians come up with an investment scheme where they're going to have a crack at 'picking winners'…
OPINION: What are the unions for these days?