Domestic Focus
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided…
OPINION: Economists, in their usual excitable tones, have, for a while now, been openly questioning the Reserve Bank’s glacially slow reaction to the recessionary economic conditions we’re all drowning in.
In a win for rural advocacy groups, New Zealand’s five largest banks have agreed to keep regional branches open for three more years.
ASB and Pāmu are joining forces with a new Sustainable Progress Initiatives programme designed to accelerate industry-good projects with social and environmental benefits for New Zealand’s agricultural sector.
ASB head of rural banking Aidan Gent is encouraging farmers to speak to their banks when they are struggling.
ASB says the decision to sign on to the AgriZeroNZ joint venture came out of a wish to be a part of the solution.
An $8/kgMS farm gate milk price is still on the cards with less than six weeks left to run this season.
The latest ASB quarterly report suggests a more positive outlook for the primary sector compared with previous quarters.
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided…
OPINION: With fuel prices soaring, one would have expected most farmers to be reclaiming excise duty on petrol.