NZ's handbrake
OPINION: Your old mate gets the sinking feeling that no matter who we vote into power in the hope they will reverse the terminal slide the country is in, there will always be a cohort of naysayers determined to hold us back.
OPINION: It's election season and Greenpeace is banging the old drum again – ‘kill the dairy industry’.
It’s now calling on all political parties to step up and commit to bold and urgent climate action - code for reducing the number of cows.
With NZ knocking on the door of a recession, Greenpeace wants to kill the cow that gives the white gold which sells around the world for billions of dollars every year. Without those dollars, we’d be broke.
Sorry Greenpeace, all political parties support a safe and stable climate and healthy environment. The difference is, they are all working alongside farmers to find scientific solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rather than shut them down.
Alliance has announced a series of capital raise roadshow event, starting on 29 September in Tuatapere, Southland.
State farmer Pāmu (Landcorp) has announced a new equity partnership in an effort to support pathways to farm ownership for livestock farm operators.
Following a recent overweight incursion that saw a Mid-Canterbury contractor cop a $12,150 fine, the rural contracting industry is calling time on what they consider to be outdated and unworkable regulations regarding weight and dimensions that they say are impeding their businesses.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says his officials plan to meet their US counterparts every month from now on to better understand how the 15% tariff issue there will play out, and try and get some certainty there for our exporters about the future.
Brett Wotton, an Eastern Bay of Plenty kiwifruit grower and harvest contractor, has won the 2025 Kiwifruit Innovation Award for his work to support lifting fruit quality across the industry.