Displaying items by tag: Milking It

OPINION: The number of farms being converted to forestry in the name of tackling climate change in New Zealand is causing alarm.

OPINION: Fonterra is forking out $27 million to pay Victorian farmers to settle class action proceedings across the ditch.

OPINION: It seems that the high level of farmer anger over the Government's emissions pricing plan is finally reaching levy-paying bodies.

OPINION: Rising living costs in the UK have pushed the price of cow’s milk, a staple for households across the UK, above dairy-free alternatives for some shoppers.

OPINION: West Australian dairy farmers struggling to find revenue streams are turning to alcoholic spirits – not drinking but making the products.

OPINION: The UK's revolving door politics of recent weeks means the country's farmers are getting used to their fifth Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in five years.

OPINION: The recent Groundswell national protest was surprisingly a fizzer in some rural regions.

OPINION: Animal rights group SAFE thinks skinny cows are unacceptable on a farm.

OPINION: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used a hay bale for a podium while announcing the latest consultation documents on the Government's emissions policy.

OPINION: Talkback radio was just one forum running hot with angry takes on the decision to tax farmers for livestock farts last week. The anger, and support for farmers, went much wider than rural communities.