Arise Sir Paddy
OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
A South Canterbury irrigation scheme left high-and-dry by changes in Government policy is being revived with the backing of Waimate rich-lister Gary Rooney.
The High Court has ordered a five-day relief to nurseries and orchardists who face losing tens of thousands of apple and stonefruit plants imported from the US.
It is an exciting time to be talking sheep milking, says Thomas MacDonald, business manager for Spring Sheep Dairy, in Taupo.
It is a great pity that some people have embraced – with little question – the concept that farmers can make a ‘reduction in stocking rate and still make the same money, while leaching less nitrogen’.
This time last month, not many people were aware that a new era was dawning on the world’s largest dairy exporter, Fonterra.
Speaking of Fonterra, your old mate hears that dairy farmers are struggling to take seriously the role of the co-op’s shareholders’ council.
Your old mate understands the Government has set up another committee on top of the 120-plus it has already established – this time for small business.
This photo was taken at a recent conference at Te Papa, in Wellington, attended by a mate of the Hound.
Your old mate always thought the ‘mouth of the north’ and self-proclaimed ‘provincial champion’, Shane Jones, was always full of the proverbial.
Most farmers are now flat-out calving and lambing and are looking forward to another season of forecast good returns.
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The 30-year wheat farming career of Syd Worsfold, Canterbury, has been recognised with the title of Federated Farmers Arable Farmer of the Year for 2018.
The ‘wild west’ of the primary sector is what the Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor calls the bee industry.
Dairy prices went down in the overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction.
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