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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
Prominent rural consultant Alison Dewes has been using Overseer for more than a decade.
OPINION: The Ministry for Primary Industries' frontline staff are vital to our work supporting the food and fibre sector and I'm proud of our team's efforts.
OPINION: We have been with the same travel agent for more than three decades.
OPINION: It looks like, following this year's general election, a number of farmers will be trading in their gumboots for the hallowed halls of Parliament.
OPINION: It seems wokeness is now well and truly infecting the brains trust at The New Zealand Merino Company, which now wants farmers to give lambs pain relief during tail docking.
OPINION: This old mutt was amused to read about a snowflake vegan in Perth, Australia who wrote neighbours a letter requesting that they close their window when cooking their "sickening" meat.
OPINION: A mate of yours truly reckons the promotion of former kindergarten teacher Jo Luxton as new associate agriculture minister, following the defection of Meka Whaitiri from Labour to the Maori Party, shows just how shallow the talent pool is in the current government.
OPINION: The Hound reckons former Fed Farmers president Andrew Hoggard's move to stand for the Act Party at this year's election had to have been the worst kept secret in NZ agri-circles.
Meat processor ANZCO Foods has reported an annual turnover for 2022 of $1.90b - compared with $1.64b for 2021 - and net profit before tax of $147.7m (2021 $75m) for the 2022 financial year.
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The success of Ravensdown’s new commercialisation subsidiary, Agnition, will be measured in results.
Scientists from Plant & Food Research have been collecting data from apple orchards in Hawke’s Bay to better understand the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on plant and soil health and support grower’s management decisions.
Taylor Leabourn, a 28-year-old agronomist at LeaderBrand, has been named the 2023 Pukekohe Young Grower of the Year.
There are fewer dairy cattle, sheep, and deer in New Zealand’s paddocks.
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OPINION: A press release from the oxygen thieves running the hot air symposium on climate change, known as COP30, grabbed your…
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