OPINION: Making it easier to get things done while protecting the environment - that's the Government's promise when it comes to the overhaul of the problematic Resource Management Act (RMA).

OPINION: In the same way that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, economists sometimes get it right.

OPINION: The proposed RMA reforms took a while to drop but were well signaled after the election.

OPINION: We've been having constructive conversations with the Government recently around climate change and emissions from food production, but now is the time to see these conversations turn into action.

OPINION: New Zealand farmers have been sold out, not just by the Government but by our own industry leaders.

OPINION: Finally, the jackboot of State will be lifted from the throat of those trying to grow the economy.

OPINION: With media putting so much effort into covering the issue of children not really liking the school lunch they never asked for in the first place, it's understandable they've paid little if any attention to the looming threat to the NZ economy - bird flu.

OPINION: New technologies can promise the world but how do we know if they are delivering?

OPINION: A big ‘shout-out’ from me to Wairarapa sheep farmer Hamish De Lautour for his excellent article Just answer the damn question! published in the last edition of Rural News.

OPINION: At last, a serious effort to better connect farmers and scientists.