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OPINION: Some users of social media website X, formerly Twitter, are hard to understand.
Here’s one. This user, describing himself as a campaigner, storyteller and gardener erroneously claims Fonterra is responsible for the death of 2890 people. He bases this slanderous claim on Fonterra’s 12.8m tonnes of CO2 emissions and using a “conservative mortality cost formula of 226 deaths per million tonnes of carbon”.
When asked, what’s the alternative to closing NZ’s dairy production on the economy, this joker suggests shifting to plant-based diets.
This lead one farmer to chip in – “You’re proof a plant-based diet is lacking in essential fats for brain function”.
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A project reducing strains and sprains on farm has won the Innovation category in the New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards 2025.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ), in partnership with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and other sector organisations, has launched a national survey to understand better the impact of facial eczema (FE) on farmers.
One of New Zealand's latest and largest agrivoltaics farm Te Herenga o Te Rā is delivering clean renewable energy while preserving the land's agricultural value for sheep grazing under the modules.
Global food company Nestle’s chair Paul Bulcke will step down at its next annual meeting in April 2026.
Brendan Attrill of Caiseal Trust in Taranaki has been announced as the 2025 National Ambassador for Sustainable Farming and Growing and recipient of the Gordon Stephenson Trophy at the National Sustainability Showcase at in Wellington this evening.
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
OPINION: Once upon a time the Fieldays were for real farmers, salt of the earth people who thrived on hard…
