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OPINION: Your canine crusader was truly impressed by the almost unanimous support given by politicians of all stripes in Parliament to the recent passing of legislation for the NZ/EU free trade deal.
OPINION: Your canine crusader reckons we should all be more aware of the latest environment scam - those companies who say they are planting trees in an effort to mitigate any environmental damage their current business practice is doing.
A couple of recent examples are one major building company saying it will plant 30,000 tress 'to offset' carbon produced for its latest construction development and a windscreen company that is advertising the fact it will plant a tree for every windscreen it replaces.
Have these businesses not heard of carbon farming and the hugely negative impact it is having on our landscape with monoculture forests infesting and taking over good farmland up and down the country?
Let alone the mass destruction of jobs and communities these new plantations are having on rural communities.
Is tree planting the new greenwashing?
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford is claiming “some real success” on the 12 policy priorities it placed before the Coalition Government.
Federated Farmers is throwing its support behind the Fast-track Approvals Bill introduced by the Coalition Government to enable a fast-track decision-making process for infrastructure and development projects.
The latest report from ANZ isn’t good news for sheep farmers: lamb returns are forecast to remain low.
Divine table grapes that herald the start of a brand-new industry in Hawke’s Bay have been coming off vines in Maraekakaho.
In what appears to be a casualty of the downturn in the agricultural sector, a well-known machinery brand is now in the hands of liquidators and owing creditors $6.6 million.
One of New Zealand’s deepest breeder Jersey herds – known for its enduring connection through cattle with the UK’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II – will host its 75th anniversary celebration sale on-farm on April 22.