Risky business
OPINION: In the same way that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, economists sometimes get it right.
Some dairy farmers in flood-hit Edgecumbe face hefty financial pressure as the impact of the floods is realised.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy is welcoming new figures forecasting that primary exports will reach $37.5 billion for the year ending June 2017.
Almost $1 million will go to projects aimed at combating animal diseases from the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Farming Fund.
With modern technology your farm’s customers are only a smartphone call away, Primary Industry Minister Nathan Guy says.
An OECD report missed a critical point in claiming NZ is reaching its environmental limits and criticising the government’s primary export targets.
The funding of research into facial eczema (FE) and bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), and better use of antimicrobials and disease management on dairy farms, has been boosted in the latest Sustainable Farming Fund round.
The Government is looking into claims by flood-stricken farmers that floating logs were responsible for causing major damage.
OPINION: In the same way that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, economists sometimes get it right.
OPINION: The proposed RMA reforms took a while to drop but were well signaled after the election.