New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
Fruit and vegetable growers are warning their produce will be left unpicked and rotting in the fields unless the Government approves urgent visas for overseas workers.
A group of Fonterra shareholders are having another go at next month’s annual meeting to force a revamp of the troubled Shareholders Council.
New research shows that New Zealand sheep and beef farms are already offsetting the majority of their agricultural emissions.
The forecast milk payout for this season has gone up by 40c and Fonterra farmers can thank Chinese consumers.
Southland Federated Farmers vice president Bernadette Hunt says she finds it “interesting” that Environment Minister David Parker continues to downplay the feedback on the Government’s freshwater regulations.
Irrigation New Zealand has appointed former DairyNZ manager Vanessa Winning as its new chief executive.
Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman James Barron says the council supports the recommendations of a review into its role and functions.
Allied Farmers is forking out $2.5 million for a new scheme under which rural land will be bought and then leased to successful farm operators.
Two farmers have been fined for failing to register animals under the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.
The first batch of overseas drivers for local agricultural contracting work is expected in the country next week, says Rural Contractors New Zealand (RCNZ) chief executive Roger Parton.
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Rural groups are banding together to support farmers dealing with challenging weather conditions in Otago and Southland.
OPINION: Your canine crusader understands that the farmer’s favourite politician – Environment Minister David Parker – not content with implementing his impractical and unworkable winter grazing and low slope rules in the recent freshwater reforms, now has his grubby little mitts all over water issues in the Otago region.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound’s is very suspicious about the motives around professional political muck-raker and “third party campaign” strategist Simon Lusk’s plans to take a private prosecution to force the Alliance Group to pay back all the Covid wage subsidy it claimed earlier in the year.
OPINION: Your old mate hears plenty of ill-informed comment from farming critics and other anti-farming types in this country about how farmers are always getting handouts or somehow bludging off the state.
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