New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
OPINION: As predicted there was a definite mood for change in rural and provincial New Zealand at this year's election.
OPINION: Your canine crusader notes that the new parliament will have a fresh array of new MPs from farming backgrounds taking up seats in the nation's capital.
OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders if outgoing Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor will now call it a day on his 30-year long political career.
OPINION: The Hound has always viewed multi-national political activist group Greenpeace as full of bovine excrement.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons the new Government has a big turnaround job in getting farmers feeling confident again.
Dairy
'El Nino has officially arrived.’
A Fonterra farmer claims there is "a serious disconnect" between co-op shareholders and the board.
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is deciding whether there are grounds to reasses the use of the herbicide glyphosate in NZ.
In the light of a possible drought due to El Nino - particularly along the East Coast of the North Island - Beef + Lamb NZ is busy running workshops to help farmers in the region to cope with any eventuality.
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As rain pours down on David Birkett's Leeston arable farm, he takes a sigh of relief ahead of the predicted dry summer.
Rabobank's latest rural confidence survey shows a minus 72% confidence reading - eclipsing last June’s historic minus 57% - the lowest in the survey’s 20-year history.
For many farmers in cyclone ravaged Hawke's Bay things are starting to come right, according to AgFirst farm consultant Lochie MacGillivray.
The worst of the current dairy price cycle may be over, claims Westpac senior agricultural economist Nathan Penny.
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