Are they serious?
OPINION: The Greens aren’t serious people when it comes to the economy, so let’s not spend too much on their fiscal fantasies.
OPINION: We are told there is a wine glut - production outstripping demand worldwide - and the words 'wine lakes' are being thrown around.
This old mutt reckons that in this situation, the prices of wine in our supermarkets might fall, at least a tiny bit, but this doesn't appear to be the case.
So, what's happening, are the winemakers holding up their prices or, more likely, are the wholesalers and retailers leaving the RRPs where they were and fattening their margins?
It would be interesting to find out the truth, but these days, truth is a very scarce commodity.
The only answer to good, cheap wine may be finding out that recipe of two thousand or more years ago of instantly turning water into wine.
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.
Recent results from its 2024 financial year has seen global farm machinery player John Deere record a significant slump in the profits of its agricultural division over the last year, with a 64% drop in the last quarter of the year, compared to that of 2023.
An agribusiness, helping to turn a long-standing animal welfare and waste issue into a high-value protein stream for the dairy and red meat sector, has picked up a top innovation award at Fieldays.
The Fieldays Innovation Award winners have been announced with Auckland’s Ruminant Biotech taking out the Prototype Award.
Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).
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