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Red meat sector voting opens

Voting has opened for B+LNZ director elections.

‘Spray and walk away’ atttitude must change

Dr Peter Boutsalis, of the University of Adelaide, gives a presentation on herbicide resistance at the FAR CROPS Annual Expo held at the Chertsey research site, Mid-Canterbury, in December. SUPPLIED.

The first step in tackling herbicide resistance in arable farming is admitting you have a problem, says Australian specialist Dr Peter Boutsalis.

Promising results from denitrification wall

Construction of the denitrification wall at Silverstream Reserve using a mixture of woodchip and gravel

A world-first denitrification wall at Silverstream, North Canterbury designed to reduce high groundwater nitrate levels is working as anticipated.

Kiwis outstanding in their fields

Syngenta Australasia head Paul Luxton, with joint productivity category winners Murray Turley (NZ) and Lynley Anderson (WA), as well as Syngenta regional director of APAC Alex Berkovskiy. SUPPLIED

Two New Zealanders were named as winners in the recent trans-Tasman 2018 Growth Awards run by agriculture multinational Syngenta.

RWNZ boss to chair Landcare

The NZ Landcare Trust will have a strong role to play with the increasing national focus on farm environmental issues, says the trust’s new chair, Fiona Gower.

We need to tell consumers the full story

OPINION: New Zealand food and fibre is different from those in other countries, yet not all consumers know this or are willing to pay a premium for it.

Proposed immigration changes a win-win

OPINION: Recent proposals by the Government to make it easier for regions to get workers look like a step — if not a leap — in the right direction.

Stop the sniping — Editorial

Some 97% of waterways on dairy farms are now fenced off from stock.

OPINION: They say when you point a finger at someone in condemnation you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.

While your old mate is on the topic of Landcorp – or Pamu as it likes to call itself these days – he reckons farmers and others are getting a little tired of the poor performing state farmer’s virtue signalling, but lack of real action where it counts.

If the shoe fits

Your canine crusader was amused to hear that the spin doctors at Twitch & Tweet – more commonly known as Forest & Bird – were unhappy with the way one of its activists was described in a story run in Rural News in December last year on the way the government farmer Landcorp is playing politics and sucking up to the environmental sector.