Are they serious?
OPINION: The Greens aren’t serious people when it comes to the economy, so let’s not spend too much on their fiscal fantasies.
OPINION: In a victory for common sense over virtue signalling, David Parker's National Policy Statement (NPS) work on freshwater is now dead in the water.
Parker's NPS required councils to figure out what the 'mana' of the water entailed and how to preserve it.
Trying to introduce a spiritual element to the management of water was already causinf massive headaches and ructions at council level, especially in Southland, so your old mate is stoked to see the brakes put on such woke nonsense.
Despite the incoming Government making it clear that councils didn't have to continue work on Parker's folly, most of them did, wasting millions of dollars and upsetting ratepayers.
Finally, they've been stopped cold, with a new law compelling them to wait for the revised government Freshwater NPS.
Northlanders scooped the pool at this year's prestigious Ahuwhenua Trophy Awards - winning both the main competition and the young Maori farmer award.
Red meat farmers are urging the Government to act on the growing number of whole sheep and beef farm sales for conversion to forestry, particularly carbon farming.
The days of rising on-farm inflation and subdued farmgate prices are coming to an end for farmers, helping lift confidence.
A blockbuster year and an exciting performance: that's how Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) Director General, Ray Smith is describing the massive upsurge in the fortunes of the primary sector exports for the year ended June 2025.
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.