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OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
Old mate says, "once again the idiots at SAFE laid an expensive malicious, vexatious MPI-time wasting complaint (as reported by the Ashburton Courier, on August 28, pg. 47)".
What was the problem that had to be urgently investigated for the anaemic wonders at SAFE?
Calves placed into a trailer, a cow chased by a farmer on a quad bike and animals standing in mud... getting muddy feet.
In other words, a complete waste of time and resources, over about what sounds like just another day on the farm - with no animals harmed or driven to anxiety attacks, unlike the hand-wringers at SAFE.
The Hound might have more sympathy for these moaners if they were honest about their real agenda - to end livestock farming.
Lincoln University Dairy Farm will be tweaking some management practices after an animal welfare complaint laid in mid-August, despite the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigation into the complaint finding no cause for action.
OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content posted on social media and adult entertainment subscription site OnlyFans.
Animal rights organization, SAFE says the government needs to maintain the ban on live exports.
Rather than banning live animal exports, New Zealand should raise the standards required of the industry.
Animal rights group SAFE has launched a nationwide campaign designed to issue a call to the new government, asking them to preserve the ban on live animal export.
BNZ says it is backing aspiring dairy farmers through an innovative new initiative that helps make the first step to farm ownership or sharemilking a little easier.
LIC chief executive David Chin says meeting the revised methane reduction targets will rely on practical science, smart technology, and genuine collaboration across the sector.
Lincoln University Dairy Farm will be tweaking some management practices after an animal welfare complaint laid in mid-August, despite the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigation into the complaint finding no cause for action.
A large slice of the $3.2 billion proposed capital return for Fonterra farmer shareholders could end up with the banks.
Opening a new $3 million methane research barn in Waikato this month, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay called on the dairy sector to “go as fast as you can and prove the concepts”.
New Zealand’s trade with the European Union has jumped $2 billion since a free trade deal entered into force in May last year.
