Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is polluting the environment.
OPINION: It seems every bugger in this country can get an award these days.
Every obscure occupation, gender, whatever can apply or get nominated for some supposedly good deed regardless of their ability.
And then there’s the official King’s Awards, which seem to include just about everybody but those in the farming sector.
Yes, it’s nice and fluffy etc but it’s also bloody expensive.
Going to all these awards would involve a farmer in more running around than a hard day’s yakka on a 20,000 hectare farm.
In times of austerity, are such lavish functions the best use of cash?
But rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic at least made the sinking look good!
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.
Recent results from its 2024 financial year has seen global farm machinery player John Deere record a significant slump in the profits of its agricultural division over the last year, with a 64% drop in the last quarter of the year, compared to that of 2023.
An agribusiness, helping to turn a long-standing animal welfare and waste issue into a high-value protein stream for the dairy and red meat sector, has picked up a top innovation award at Fieldays.
The Fieldays Innovation Award winners have been announced with Auckland’s Ruminant Biotech taking out the Prototype Award.
Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).
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…