Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its cows and instead charge visitors to cuddle them.
OPINION: Amazing how one bad poll can rattle a Government.
First, a 180 on cutting fuel excise, and now we hear that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is ready to meet with Groundswell leaders, after twice declining the group's requests for a meeting.
With National leader Chris Luxon taking his party ahead of Labour in the latest 1 NEWS-Kantar poll, there has been some serious re-thinking on the ninth floor of the Beehive.
Groundswell organised protests around the country last year against, among other things, environmental regulations, the 'ute tax' and a seasonal worker shortage. At the time the Government spurned the movement with one of PM Ardern's senior ministers Stuart Nash accusing the group of being "racist and anti-vaxers".
Rural supply business PGG Wrightson Ltd has bought animal health products manufacturer Nexan Group for $20 million.
While Donald Trump seems to deliver a new tariff every few days, there seems to be an endless stream of leaders heading to the White House to negotiate reciprocal deals.
The challenges of high-performance sport and farming are not as dissimilar as they may first appear.
HortNZ's CEO, Kate Scott says they are starting to see the substantial cumulative effects on their members of the two disastrous flood events in the Nelson Tasman region.
In an ever-changing world, things never stay completely the same. Tropical jungles can turn into concrete ones criss-crossed by motorways, or shining cities collapse into ghost towns.
Labour's agriculture spokesperson Jo Luxton says while New Zealand needs more housing, sacrificing our best farmland to get there is not the answer.