Arise Sir Paddy
OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
A field trial using frozen sexed semen didn’t produce the desired results, says LIC.
Tired of blanket irrigation's issues, two Massey University engineering graduates decided to create a solution.
Farmers, don't give the rule-makers a reason to regulate, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s environment team.
How are Canterbury farmers doing their bit to help the environment? Environment Canterbury chairman Steve Lowndes explains.
OPINION: It's time all honeys are given the same respect that we are trying to give to manuka.
OPINION: The agricultural sector plays a critical role in New Zealand's economic health and the lives of everyday Kiwis.
Rural confidence has fallen for the third consecutive quarter.
Meanwhile, at the same time as the political activists at Bitch & Complain were publicising their dodgy survey results, the fishing lobby was completely missing in action where it really counted.
Sadly it looks like 2019 is going to be no different from last year regarding the anti-farming stance taken by fishing lobby Fish & Game – rightly dubbed Bitch & Complain by your canine crusader.
The Hound, like most rational people in NZ’s primary and export sectors, was delighted to see the much maligned and denigrated trade agreement of the past few years – the CPTPP, formerly known as the TPP – come into force this month.
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This old mutt was taken aback by a vitriolic opinion piece penned in a weakly (sic) rural publication late last year by a self-important commentator named Craig Wiggins.
OPINION: Fonterra shareholders are starting 2019 with high expectations.
The gap is closing between 2019 season and 2018 season prices, says ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny.
A major campaign is in its final stages to gain support for a commodity levy for the bee industry.
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Ivory bloody towers
OPINION: The antipathy the previous government had for farmers no longer holds court on the Beehive’s 9th floor, but it’s…
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