True agenda
OPINION: A press release from the oxygen thieves running the hot air symposium on climate change, known as COP30, grabbed your old mate’s attention.
OPINION: Milking It reckons New Zealand should take a bow after winning the 'Fossil of the Day' award at COP30 in Brazil over recent improvements to our methane targets.
Oblivious to the irony of an auditorium full of COP30 attendees who had all burned many tonnes of aviation fuel to attend the blow-fest, they have attempted to shame nations like ours for what they see as inaction.
These hypocrites think the same way as Greenpeace, who misrepresent the science around methane emissions as "an accounting trick", determined as they are to kill dairy farming.
On the contrary, our government should be commended for not caving in to pressure to knobble our industry and economy based purely on blind ideology.
In fact, you could argue they didn't go far enough in cutting our methane targets.
Ashleigh Gordon and Leilani Lobb have been named as the two finalists for Dairy Women's Network's (DWN) 2026 Regional Leader of the Year Award.
Animal and Plant Health New Zealand (APHANZ) says the approval of a new fungicide seed treatment is a positive, however growers will be hoping the final approval is completed ahead of the spring season.
North Canterbury farmer Adam Williamson has been appointed DairyNZ's associate director for 2026-27.
Fonterra farmers are set for a multi-billion-dollar payout this week.
The 2026 Holstein Friesian NZ Young Breeders Development Programme is off to a strong start, with this year's intake coming together for their first event on March 18 and 19.
State farmer Pāmu (Landcorp) has announced it will pay a $10 million special dividend to the Crown off the back of a strong outlook for the business and a capital repayment of $9.5 million following Fonterra's consumer business sale.