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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: Federated Farmers is pleased that a Member's Bill from ACT MP Mark Cameron has put opportunities for live animal exports back on the political agenda.
OPINION: The great pics and stories continue as, of course, does the huge cleanup!
OPINION: Beef + Lamb NZ's annual meeting will be an interesting affair this year in a number of ways.
OPINION: This old mutt reckons both government and officials are failing to see the wood for the trees in regard to the huge swathes of good farmland going into forestry - much of this to overseas-owned carbon sinks.
OPINION: Your old mate notes that regulations governing NZ's pig sector could end up seeing us running out of locally produced pork - like we are currently experiencing with eggs.
OPINION: The Hound was astounded at the glib response from Greens leader James Shaw to a written parliamentary question from ACT MP Mark Cameron.
OPINION: Your canine crusader sees that the fun police have struck again and killed off an iconic rural event.
A Canterbury farmer's plan to establish a 2,200-animal composting barn feedlot, near the environmentally sensitive Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, will go to a public hearing.
The Varroa destructor mite is the most common reason for overwintering hive losses for Kiwi beekeepers, according to the recently released New Zealand Colony Loss Survey.
Sanitarium has announced it will increase its donations of Weet-Bix to New Zealand Food Network (NZFN) by 50%.
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Southland dairy farmer Hugh Jackson was crowned the Otago Southland FMG Young Farmer of the Year over the weekend.
Some of the world's major food companies are demanding even more severe environmental targets than New Zealand has provision for in its own climate change legislation.
The first shipment of the 2023 New Zealand kiwifruit season recently departed the Port of Tauranga, carrying around 2,500 tonnes (more than 600,000 trays) of Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit to customers in Japan.
A leading Australian banker says commentators that keep pillorying farmers for not doing enough for the environment have a negative effect.
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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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