Political colours
OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
Rural health will be a new feature of this year’s Fieldays.
New Zealand, as we all know, is blessed with abundant water and we have it to ourselves.
Rural New Zealanders’ lives are at risk every day because of poor cellphone and internet connectivity and inequitable health services.
The nostalgia button is being pushed with releases of chocolate bar flavours from the past, milk in traditional glass bottles and constant references to food “as it was meant to be”.
The Hound hears that the jokes were on PM Bill English who was in fine form at the recent Ahuwhenua Trophy awards in Whangarei.
What is it with Massey University academics and their hatred of agriculture?
Your old mate reckons a fine example of ‘political correctness gone mad’ is seen in a decision by the Otago Regional Council (ORC) not to use the term ‘gypsy day’ again, after it was criticised as offensive.
An Australian aerial spectral mapping company hopes to burst into the New Zealand market via a grand gesture.
Farmers and lifestyle block-owners can cash in on the wave of motorhome tourists here for the Lions rugby tour, says the developer of an app called CamperMate.
A devastating fire will knock back a young beekeeper’s developing operation in North Canterbury by at least two years.
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The retiring Federated Farmers president, Dr William Rolleston, is warning farmers that they will soon be “chasing the tail” of synthetic food producers because of their products’ lesser environmental footprint.
Ravensdown chief executive Greg Campbell doesn’t want the co-op to be labeled “a fertiliser business and a polluter”.
Meat company Affco has shipped 33,000 consumer packs of premium beef to China -- its first foray into the lucrative value-added market.
Canterbury milk processor Synlait has followed Fonterra in announcing an opening milk price of $6.50/kgMS for the new season.
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