Top Māori farm faces costly rebuild after severe storm damage
One of the country's top Māori farms faces a long and costly rebuild to get the property back to where it was before recent storms ripped through it.
OPINION: First on the scene after the recent devastating storms in parts of the North Island were emergency services and selfless members of the public.
Close behind them were the increasingly tone-deaf climate activists – not to lend a hand or support, but to push the same single-issue obsession that they bore people with at parties.
Most decent Kiwis know there’s a time and place for pushing your political agenda and it’s not while volunteers are still clearing roads and digging slip victims out of the rubble.
Unfortunately, there were like-minded climate obsessives in the media and in Parliament doing the same thing.
Your old mate has seen this tone-deaf barracking here and overseas and reckons their lack of common decency and respect is a key reason people are tiring of their ‘the sky is falling’ message.
DairyNZ says Waikato farmers need certainty on Plan Change 1, but they say that certainty must be matched with practical, workable rules and a clear transition that doesn't get ahead of the new resource management system currently under review.
While the Government has moved quickly to make commercial hauliers' lot easier during the current fuel crisis, they appear to be stuck in the creep box when it comes to the agricultural industry.
Waikato farmers have been told that the Government’s new planning system legislation and the region’s Plan Change 1 (PC1) “won’t mesh together very well”.
Farmer owned co-operative Ravensdown has signed a two-year naming rights sponsorship of the Canterbury A&P Show.
OPINION: Confidence in the wool sector is rebounding as prices hit levels not seen in more than 15 years.
More than 300 growers, exporters, researchers, service providers and industry leaders will descend on Queenstown later this month for EXPO 2026, the annual conference for New Zealand’s apple and pear sector.

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