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OPINION: As a country we should be celebrating Fonterra’s solid annual results announced last week.
More money for Fonterra means more moolah trickling into rural towns and communities.
Sadly, not everyone is elated with the co-op.
‘Serial Fonterra hater’, Greenpeace issued a release last week calling out Fonterra for ‘profiting from rainforest destruction’. But only two million tonnes of palm kernel expeller are imported, and they make a small portion of the feed going into cows.
Greenpeace would love to see fewer cows in NZ. Fortunately, that view isn’t widely shared by New Zealanders.
OPINION: Get offside with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters at your own peril.
OPINION: Being a stock manager of a Government MP's farm can come in handy.
OPINION: Groundswell's opinion of the incumbent farm industry representatives isn't high.
Milk powder prices are keeping farmgate prices up, helping processors offset the dip in milk fat prices.
Surprised, humbled and quite thrilled. That’s the reaction of James Allen, one of the founding partners and now chief executive of AgFirst, on being made a life member of the Institute of Rural Professionals.
It was billed as a chance for all the political parties to woo the rural vote, but question marks hang over just how effective this was.
Minister of Conservation Hon Tama Potaka has appointed Susan O'Regan as Chair of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust (QEII) for a three-year term.
Red meat farmers are welcoming Labour’s plan to review the Emissions Trading Scheme and not to campaign on pricing agricultural emissions.
Where any worker in the kiwifruit industry is mistreated, we expect the authorities to take action.
Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers arable chair, Bevan Lill, said Beef + Lamb NZ data indicated that for the last six years, the average arable return on investment was about 0.8% while inflation ran about 4% - so the average arable farm was going backwards at about 3% a year.
OPINION: It seems Canterbury processor Synlait is still in the doldrums.
OPINION: Get offside with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters at your own peril.
