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Data, compliance, records all seen to

Farm software company FarmIQ says it can manage the data farmers must collect and provide to prove their compliance and sustainability.

Better irrigation beats tax on water

Centre pivot irrigators are among the most water-efficient means of irrigation. Regulations and limits on water availability encourage their use by farmers.

Irrigation NZ believes that imposing a nationwide water tax would be unworkable.

Dos and don’ts of selling raw milk

Selling raw (unpasteurised) drinking milk to consumers is now legal.

It is now legal to sell raw (unpasteurised) drinking milk to consumers.

Make your vote count

Stimulated by Fonterra posting a loss of $196 million, business analysts, academics and journalists have put forward their views on what is wrong with the cooperative and what is needed to sort it out.

Let the games begin — Editorial

Adding interest to this year’s vote are bids by former director Leonie Guiney.

OPINION: Fonterra's upcoming director elections will be an interesting contest with a potential shake-up on the cards, which its board surely needs.

Own goal

Your old mate realises he risks an outpouring of hatred and bile from the tin foil hat-wearing types who support the anti-1080 movement, but he reckons they have proven beyond a doubt that they are total nutjobs.

Walker?

The Hound had to laugh on hearing that the sanctimonious, whining vegan cafe owner who refused to serve cow milk to customers has now closed his shop and will walk the length of New Zealand barefoot in protest.

Soft border?

A mate of the Hound who recently travelled to Ireland found that country’s airport biosecurity rather lax.

Farm sales off the boil

Farm sales are well below the levels seen in 2016.

Farm sales remain consistent, but are well below the levels seen in 2016, says the Real Estate Institute of NZ (REINZ).

Not even a wild Atlantic storm can stop the Irish

Despite Atlantic storms the crowds still came.

The Irish sure know how to throw a good party, as experienced last month at the National Ploughing Association event at Screggan, County Offaly, Ireland.