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Former All Black backs down-to-earth rural internet provider

With the COVID-19 lockdown placing even greater emphasis on the need for reliable internet networks, a former All Black is working to keep New Zealand’s rural folk connected.

Eyes open to different ways of farm ownership

Former Ravensdown colleagues Jane Smith, of Newhaven Farms, and Justin Geary of NZ Farm Management, during the Action Group’s farm visit.

Farmer Jane Smith was “blown away” by the group dynamic and drive when she and husband Blair hosted the North Otago-based Growth and Development in Farming Action Group at Newhaven Farms in Oamaru.

COVID-19: Trusting business to work

National’s agriculture spokesman, Todd Muller on the role the Government needs to play for agriculture businesses.

NZ agritech to get a Govt push

David Downs believes there is potential for NZ’s agritech sector to become a high export earner.

It looks like the agritech sector is set to get some backing from the Government.

Union boss doffs hat to meat companies

National secretary of the Meat Workers Union Daryl Carran.

Meat processing companies have gained praise for the way they handled the challenges around COVID-19 from an unlikely source – the union.

Failed petition aims to spark more farming support

Petition organiser Terry Waite believe farmers are owed an apology at the very least and a backtrack on many of the restraints government has placed on them.

Te Kuiti-based electrician Terry Waite’s demand that the Government apologise to farmers for the way it has treated them – especially over the last couple of years – has failed.

RA 20 virus danger to NZ farming

OPINION: There is another pandemic sweeping the nation.

Who’s paying?

Your canine crusader noticed a full-page ad recently run in a farming paper calling on meat companies SFF and Alliance Group to pay back the $70m-plus they claimed in wage subsidy.

About time!

Speaking of anti-farming types, this old mutt hears that serial farming bashers Fish and Game – or Bitch and Complain as many know them – may be undergoing a change of attitude.

The Hound understands that Federated Farmers has been cut out of the information loop, for the past year, on the proposed freshwater reforms – driven by well-known farmer hater Environment Minister David Parker.

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Careful!

Your old mate sees that Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell has criticised small Southland dairy company Mataura Valley Milk for taking the Covid-19 wage subsidy, which the company claimed after choosing not to process Fonterra milk.

Leading the way — Editorial

COVID-19 could see our ag sector get greater acknowledgement.

OPINION: If any good can come out of the current COVID-19 crisis it will be greater acknowledgement of the importance of New Zealand’s agriculture sector to the economy.