Picking winners?
OPINION: Every time politicians come up with an investment scheme where they're going to have a crack at 'picking winners'…
State-owned farmer Pamu, formerly Landcorp Farming Ltd has paid tribute to its chair, Dr Warren Parker who passed away last week.
OPINION: The Hound was not surprised to see that Pāmu – better known as state farmer Landcorp – has been told to tidy up its business model and better concentrate on actually farming.
Pāmu is celebrating a significant milestone in its on-farm biodiversity protection and restoration programme, with over 10,000 hectares of important native habitat now protected in perpetuity with QEII covenants.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons he now understands just why state farmer Pāmu (Landcorp in everyday man's language) is such a dog of an investment and why it returns a paltry dividend - relative to the huge capital tied up in the SOE - to the country's hard-pressed taxpayers.
Pāmu Farms of New Zealand has committed to a second sustainability-linked loan with ANZ, ASB, and Westpac NZ.
Sheep with finer wool, greater tolerance for hot weather, top meat quality traits, and lower methane emissions.
Farm management software provider FarmIQ is shedding 25% of its workforce and adopting a new operating model to boost revenue.

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?