OPINION: How do you get people to stop drinking milk and switch to foods like fruit, vegetables, nuts and grains?
Well-made, high-quality grass silage is one of the most valuable feeds available to farmers.
OPINION: There's growing confidence that dairy prices are firming up.
OPINION: Milking It understands the parliamentary inquiry into banking is already having an impact.
OPINION: The late Sir Rob Muldoon once famously quipped that the plane loads of Kiwis jumping the ditch to live in Australia "raised the IQ of both countries".
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones delivered a speech this month at the inaugural Regional Growth Summit where he spoke about the Regional Infrastructure Fund, or RIF. Here's part of his speech...
OPINION: Was NZ Herald wrong to reject good money on ideological grounds? The Free Speech Union thinks so. The advocacy group has ripped into NZ’s largest newspaper claiming it lacks backbone and further threatens trust in the media and public debate.
OPINION: Last week's announcement by the Government to remove a decades-long ban on genetically engineered crops was generally well-received by farming and science communities.
OPINION: Last year, Federated Farmers wrote to all political parties seeking support for reforming genetically modified technology rules.
OPINION: One of the country’s biggest remaining newspapers, NZME’s NZ Herald has been hung by the exact same woke, bullying campaigns it has been guilty of running.
OPINION: Over the past 12 months I have noticed a growing emphasis on the dairy industry’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and how these impact farmers.
OPINION: Federated Farmers' latest Farm Confidence survey brings little comfort to the farming sector.
OPINION: A Hamilton dairy company has been found guilty of making false and/or misleading representations as to the place of origin of the dairy ingredients used in some of its ghee products.
OPINION: A debate is brewing in Australia about the ethics of breeding smaller-than-normal animals.
OPINION: The Olympic Games underway in Paris has been touted as the most eco-friendly event to date. But to the organisers' dismay, the athletes aren't buying the carbon footprint and vegan-first mentality.
OPINION: According to Statistics NZ, the country's greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.7% in the March quarter, the largest quarterly decrease since March 2010 "excluding the pandemic years".
A stalwart of rural journalism, David Anderson, has died at home in Timaru following a prolonged illness.
OPINION: Farmers from all over the country have made an impressive effort to put good wintering practices in place, ensuring their animals are cared for no matter what the weather conditions are.
OPINION: Several days after securing shareholder approval for a $130 million loan from Bright Dairy, Synlait has delivered more bad news to investors.
OPINION: Farmers have always been wary of the Resource Management Act (RMA).
OPINION: Recently several Labour MPs, including leader Chris Hipkins and deputy leader Carmel Sepuloni spent two days in Waikato with representatives of DairyNZ, Beef+Lamb NZ, Federated Farmers, Groundswell and Rural Women NZ among others.
OPINION: While Reserve Bank boss Adrian Orr is sticking to his 'abundance of caution' messaging, the economy is in tatters and the jungle drums beat ever louder for an OCR cut no later than November (to be clear, that's Nov 2024, not 2025!).
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