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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…
OPINION: Farmers and growers in Hawke’s Bay are rightly angry and frustrated at the lack of action from Wellington in sorting out a recovery plan for them.
OPINION: Your canine crusader was staggered to learn that an investigation by the Taxpayers' Union has revealed that taxpayers and Otago ratepayers have forked out more than $2.76 million to kill just... 18 wallabies!
OPINION: Remember when the once-crumbling Westland Milk Products company was bought out by Chinese company Yili in 2019 and the howls of outrage and derision from current Minister of Agriculture and West Coast MP Damien O'Connor describing it as a 'sad day' for the West Coast?
OPINION: There has been a lot of public scepticism and controversy about the Government's $55 million-odd Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF), which has seen various media outlets take this funding on certain conditions about how they report or not report on issues.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons Westpac agri economist Nathan Penny is dreaming with his latest reckons about on-farm inflation.
A new campaign from Beef + Lamb New Zealand Inc. seeks to highlight the link between life’s memorable moments and New Zealand red meat.
Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard has stepped down from the role, two months earlier than expected, after media reports claimed he will stand on an ACT Party ticket in the upcoming general elections.
The Carr Family Foundation was keen to help the rural communities that have supported its business journey over the last 40 years.
Farmers were quick to demand more detail when they got a first look at National's agriculture policies at a mid-April meeting at Otaua, south-west of Auckland, hours after its announcement.
Jim Anderson is a third generation farmer still working on the family farm at Southburn, in South Canterbury, alongside his son and grandson. Even at age 85, Anderson shows no signs of slowing down. Leo Argent reports.
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Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor is unrepentant about the ban on live exports by sea, hailing it as putting New Zealand in step wth like-minded partners on the importance of animal welfare.
One aspect of the National Party’s recently announced agricultural policy – re-instating live animal exports – has drawn a mixed reaction.
A Levin farmer found responsible for the deaths of 29 cattle has been fined $32,000.
The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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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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