OPINION: 2020 unleashed Covid-19, and in 2021 we saw the smallest vintage in the past decade – for many wineries, tanks were largely dry by the time vintage ‘22 came along.
OPINION: Every vintage has it’s vagaries, and every season I am struck by how nimble viticulturists, winemakers and grape growers have to be, catching, or at least dodging, the curveballs nature throws.
OPINION: Rural school buses is a topic I have had a great deal of correspondence on over the last couple of months.
OPINION: Synlait's latest half-year result reveals a serious problem at the heart of the business: its core operations are no longer bringing in enough revenue to cover the cost of production.
OPINION: In 2018, when Fonterra’s board tapped Miles Hurrell to step in as interim chief executive, the co-operative was in the doldrums.
OPINION: The mainstream media's obsession with (sleazy) 'tabloid' issues were to the fore at Fonterra's recent media conference to discuss its interim results.
OPINION: There is a lot of truth to this statement I first heard many years ago: 'The energy within is always more damaging than the enemy without'.
OPINION: If you ask this old mutt, the choice at the next election isn't shaping up as a contest of good ideas, more like a choice of who's the least bad option.
OPINION: A mate of yours says we're long overdue for a reckoning on what value farmers really get for the $100 million plus they collectively pay in levies to DairyNZ, Beef+Lamb NZ and Deer Industry NZ (DINZ).
OPINION: President Trump's tariff wars have torpedoed the US grain belt's biggest market, China, sending many US family farms to the wall.
OPINION: It's no surprise to this old mutt that some politicians are done playing nice with the low rent media pack that hounds them looking for a 'gotcha' moment.
OPINION: For some of us the threat of a fuel crisis is something we have dealt with before and are still here to tell the tale.
A drain is sometimes considered a negative word associated with depletion, exhaustion and loss of resources.
OPINION: The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and Iran's retaliation against several countries in the region, may further tighten farm margins due to the risk of increased input costs, especially for fertilisers like urea and also for diesel.
OPINION: Public opinion, political pragmatism and commercial and market reality have caused the Government to abandon introducing legislation into Parliament to legalise the shipment by sea of live animals - mainly cows - to overseas destinations.
OPINION: The good news keeps getting better for NZ dairy farmers.
OPINION: With export of livestock by sea dead in the water, opponents of the Gene Technology Bill think they can also force another U-turn from the Government.
OPINION: Cheaper US butter on New Zealand shelves isn't impressing everybody.
OPINION: The coalition Government seems to have chickened out when it comes to live animal exports by sea.
OPINION: Information is everywhere. So are misinformation and disinformation.
Hawke's Bay deer farmer Harry Gaddum organised the inaugural Gumboot Cup. It was a cricket tournament for 12 rural Hawke's Bay teams, their families, and the community. Gaddum says it was a chance for locals to get off farm, have some fun and connect, all for a good cause.
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