Food insecurity
OPINION: Good on the UK'S NFU for battling to get supermarkets to prioritise local farmers' produce.
OPINION: Your canine crusader is astounded at the sheer cojones of webbased media company Newsroom and its wont to cadge funding off others.
Not content with the $2,189,301 it got in taxpayer monies from the much maligned and highly controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (interestingly this is 10 times the amount of funding – at $219,000 – that the publishers of NZ Farmers Weekly sucked out of the PIJF) Newsroom has its hand out again.
It is now asking its readers for $20,000 so it can fly its inanely boring and sanctimonious ‘columnist’ Rod Oram to Dubai to cover the annual world climate talkfest COP28.
This old mutt can think of million things better to do with $20k than paying for this bicycle riding, pompous Pom delivering his ‘the end of the world is nigh’ sermons from the mount from Dubai.
The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has found itself in a stoush with NZPork over the controversial National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land (NPS-HPL).
Fonterra says the sale of its global consumer business and its Oceania and Sri Lankan operations could take 18 months to complete.
The lobby group the Methane Science Accord (MSA) says it welcomes a recent government move to seek outside advice on reducing biological methane targets, rather than relying on recommendations made by the Climate Change Commission.
Well-known scientist Jock Allison has passed away.
After a decade of consultation and court battles, Environment Southland has officially adopted a plan to prevent further decline in the region's water quality.
Farmers are throwing down the gauntlet to politicians - hold an independent inquiry into rural bank lending or face tough questions from the farming sector.