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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…
A rapid antigen test (RAT) aimed at early detection of facial eczema (FE) in ruminants may help manage a disease that costs the New Zealand economy millions of dollars each year.
North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart has reduced his use of nitrogen fertiliser by approximately 80 kilograms this season through trialling a Yara N sensor.
Rabobank's latest Rural Confidence survey has found that while farmers' sentiments are still in deeply negative territory, they have crept up from historic lows in late 2022.
Farmers could benefit from a proposed digital currency usable during a temporary disruption to network connections as experienced in Hawke's Bay in February.
OPINION: I hope this finds things well at your place today.
OPINION: I am sure most people would have heard the old saying regards “Nero fiddling while Rome Burnt”. Well this is in my opinion a classic case of the minister fiddling while the Coromandel Peninsula is rapidly dying. I believe his Waka (NZ Transport Agency - Waka Kotahi) is sinking.
OPINION: The National Party’s election pitch to farmers will likely bring much joy to a primary sector that feels drained by over-regulation, labour shortages, rising interest rates, inflation, and the terrible woes of a series of climatic disasters.
OPINION: Your canine crusader sees that NZ Manuka industry has upset its Australian counterparts – again!
OPINION:This old mutt suggests that the election of Kate Acland as chair of Beef+Lamb NZ – after the electoral demise of former chair Andrew Morrison – has seen many people miss the family link to producer board organisations.
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OPINION: Your old mate notes that Italy's government has backed a bill that would ban laboratory-produced meat and other synthetic foods, a move it believes highlights Italian food heritage and health protection.
OPINION: The Hound notes how Fonterra proudly boasted about participating in Auckland's recent Pride Parade.
The Australian Manuka Honey Association (AMHA) is calling a recent study by the Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association (UMFHA) "reprehensible, misleading and laughably self-serving" and has served the NZ team a cease-and-desist notice.
The 15% pay increase for community nurses, announced by the Government late last month, is not in effect an increase, according to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO).
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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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