Seaweed wonder

OPINION: Research across the ditch has found that seaweed doesn’t just make a tasty wrap for sushi rolls.

Sour grapes

OPINION: As a country we should be celebrating Fonterra’s solid annual results announced last week.

Speedy chair

OPINION: Federated Farmers and its members don’t have much love for regulations-obsessed regional councils.

Dairy giant

OPINION: Part of the reason China is buying less of our dairy produce is their success growing their own supply.

Say nothing!

OPINION: Normally farmer good organisations are happy to use the media to get their message across to politicians and the consumers.

Payout stakes

OPINION: It's that time of the year again when milk processors announce their annual results and final milk payout for the previous season.

Clarity needed

OPINION: This month, the government announced a pause to the rollout of the national farm plan system.

H is the 1!

OPINION: Good on Miraka for eschewing electric power for its future tankers, opting for the much more practical heavy-vehicle ‘green’ choice, hydrogen, putting NZ’s first H-powered tanker on the road.

Painting the cow red

OPINION: How do you get people to stop drinking milk and switch to foods like fruit, vegetables, nuts and grains?

Broken record

OPINION: It seems that our friends at Greenpeace are never satisfied.

Heat on banks

OPINION: Milking It understands the parliamentary inquiry into banking is already having an impact.

Ditch jumpers

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".

Spineless

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.

Out of touch

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: The annual New Zealand Ice Cream & Gelato Awards 2024 is underway.

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: 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".

OPINION: Several days after securing shareholder approval for a $130 million loan from Bright Dairy, Synlait has delivered more bad news to investors.

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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Seaweed wonder

OPINION: Research across the ditch has found that seaweed doesn’t just make a tasty wrap for sushi rolls.

Sour grapes

OPINION: As a country we should be celebrating Fonterra’s solid annual results announced last week.

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