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OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
THE HIGHLANDERS rugby team may be making Otago farmers despair, but when it comes to water policy, it seems their region is top of the table, judging by the comments of one expert.
A MARKET is emerging in China for cleaner, greener food and if this could happen in China, it could happen anywhere, says Australian sustainability advisor Paul Gilding.
THE BIGGEST threat to the sheep industry in New Zealand is the competition for grass – especially from the dairy industry, says ag consultant Peter Fennessey, a speaker at a recent BLNZ science day at Feilding.
A MASSEY University lecturer says an ‘interesting conflict’ is brewing in New Zealand betweean environmentalists and animal rights activists.
FARMER GROUPS across Australia have applauded the Federal Government’s Farm Finance package, unveiled in late April.
BOB KATTER’S Australia Party will introduce the Fair Milk Mark Bill to the Queensland State Parliament, which aims to introduce a fair milk mark on a milk bottle that SHOWS the farmer was paid a price above the cost of production.
THE GLOBAL business environment is evolving so quickly it’s “about running to keep up so we are not made obsolete,” Zespri chief Lain Jager says.
US ICONIC company McDonald’s may have dumped lambburgers – but a thriving New Zealand fast-food company plans to take on the land of beef and burgers on its home ground.
THE HOUND has noticed a real upping of ante – and the ‘anti’ – between Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and his Labour counterpart Damien O’Connor over the past couple of months.
THE HOUND sees that controversial regional council Horizons Regional Council recently trumpeted the release of its latest ‘State of Environment’ report.
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THERE ARE growing concerns about the actions – or lack of them in many cases – of the Ministry for Primary Industries in relation to its core functions.
NATIONAL’S FIFTH budget was possibly its most political offering to date, with little to excite the business community in general and the primary sector specifically.
OUR RURAL communities and our rural businesses remain the backbone to New Zealand’s success. The pragmatism and clear-sightedness of rural people is essential to the public debate we’re currently having about how the country is run, and what’s important for our future.
SITTING IN the World Farmers Organisation general assembly in Japan – the ‘UN of farming’ – I was struck by how farmers feed families the world over.
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