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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 warning has been issued to farmers about the dangers right now of both facial eczema and flystrike.
A young East Coast farmer is the poster girl for a new dairy sector campaign to attract more locals to milk cows.
You might say that lime runs deep in Greer Manderson's bones.
OPINION: The piece by Dr Jacqueline Rowarth ‘Time to do the math’ contained one point which I totally agree with, misinformation is rife within the emissions debate.
OPINION: Getting fast broadband to rural areas of New Zealand is the last great challenge for the country's Internet network.
OPINION: By the time your postie gets this to your mailbox, 2021 will be well and truly confined to the annals of history.
OPINION: They say nothing is as good as the real thing - and this seems to be the case for fake meat company Beyond Meat.
OPINION: Your old mate notes that the PM has made a big thing out of her government's supposedly 'be kind' mantra.
OPINION: The Hound always considered the Government's $3 million propaganda - sorry, advertising - campaign, last year, to promote its takeover of local councils' Three Waters assets a huge waste of taxpayer money.
OPINION: This old mutt notes that NZ's mānuka honey sector recently lost a trademark case in the UK, which may end up costing the sector big money.
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Coast to Coast is New Zealand's toughest multisport event. Competitors run, bike and kayak the 243km from Kumara on the West Coast to Sumner in the east.
Organisers of the East Coast Farming Expo are confident the annual event will be able to happen despite stricter Covid restrictions now in place.
NZ's agricultural sector needs to recognise Covid-19 as the "new normal," says leading expert on international trade, Professor Hamish Gow.
Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison concedes that the two alternative options to the ETS that the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) partnership has developed are not perfect.
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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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