Tractor therapy
While many MPs have been busy taking holidays in maybe exotic places, for Andrew Hoggard it's back to his old job as a dairy farmer during the so-called 'summer break'.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound was invited to a lockup at Parliament on last month’s climate change agreement with the ag sector.
After going through the rigorous security check, he was directed to an area where the briefing was to take place. However, a security guard wouldn’t let him go through.
Calls to the PM’s department and the Minister of Agriculture’s office resulted in the advice “go back to reception”, where he was then told go to the PM’s office with the farming leaders. But when he got there was told: “Sorry this briefing is not for the media”.
Finally, an official from the PM’s department took pity on our mate and swiped him through numerous doors and got him to the briefing.
Your canine crusader’s advice to anyone invited to a lockup at Parliament is: “Be prepared for a stuff-up or a lockout.”
An independent report, prepared for Alliance farmer shareholders is backing the proposed $250 million joint venture investment by Irish company Dawn Meats Group.
Whangarei field service technician, Bryce Dickson has cemented his place in John Deere’s history, becoming the first ever person to win an award for the third time at the annual Australian and New Zealand Technician of the Year Awards, announced at a gala dinner in Brisbane last night.
NZPork has appointed Auckland-based Paul Bucknell as its new chair.
The Government claims to have delivered on its election promise to protect productive farmland from emissions trading scheme (ETS) but red meat farmers aren’t happy.
Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks could have a detrimental impact on any country's rural sector, as seen in the United Kingdom's 2000 outbreak that saw the compulsory slaughter of over six million animals.
The Ministry for the Environment is joining as a national award sponsor in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA from next year).
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OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.