Don't hold back!
OPINION: ACT MP Mark Cameron isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he certainly calls it how he sees it, holding nothing back when ‘climate scientists’ had a crack at Kiwi farmers recently:
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 country's second largest milk processor hopes to produce its first commercial butter within two months.
There's no doubt that vehicle manufacturers at Fieldays saw a steady stream of rural folk treading the boards.
Fonterra's co-op model and what it does for New Zealand has lured one of its bright stars back on board.
Farmer lobby Federated Farmers is reporting a growth in membership, for the first time in decades.
New Zealand's Ruminant Biotech says that while it has big goals, the scale of the problem it seeks to solve requires it.
The upheaval in the Middle East may have eased the fall in global dairy prices last week.