Why?
OPINION: A mate of yours truly wants to know why the beef schedule differential is now more than 45-50 cents a kilo between North and South Island producers – if you look at February 2024 steer prices.
OPINION: Your canine crusader reckons that the people behind the Campaign for Wool are doing God's work in promoting the natural sheep fibre as sustainable, renewable and the next best thing since sliced bread.
There is no doubt they have a tough road to hoe as strong wool prices are now so low that it has become uneconomic for many crossbred wool producers to continue farming.
A mate of the Hound suggests that the Campaign for Wool has a daunting enough job without having an out-of-touch, gormless toff such as Prince Charles as the key figurehead for its programme.
Mind you, he reckons it could be a lot worse... just imagine it the Campaign had hired Chuck's disgraced younger brother, the hapless Prince "Handy Andy" Andrew as its patron!
Federated Farmers claims that the Otago Regional Council is charging ahead unnecessarily with piling more regulation on rural communities.
Dairy sheep and goat farmers are being told to reduce milk supply as processors face a slump in global demand for their products.
OPINION: We have good friends from way back who had lived in one of our major cities for many years.
Listed Canterbury milk processor Synlait’s shares have been placed in a trading halt.
OPINION: Even before the National-led coalition came into power, India was very much at the fore of its trade agenda.
A step-by-step guide helping farmers through the process of creating a Freshwater Farm Plan (FWFP) has been launched by FarmIQ.