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OPINION: I have been writing about the demise of NZ agriculture research and extension for many years.

OPINION: Irrespective of where you fall on the human-induced-global-warming spectrum - alarmist or sceptic - there is one thing we should all be 100% sure about.

OPINION: According to Google, “A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concept and experimental practice of a scientific discipline”.

OPINION: The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) recently released a report on the state of New Zealand freshwater (“Our Fresh Water 2023”).

OPINION: Cyclone Gabrielle has been one of the biggest challenges farmers and growers in affected regions have faced in my lifetime and for one of the districts I am working in, Tararua, this is no exception.

OPINION: As soon as the ‘pen hit the paper’ this column quickly morphed into a ‘Dear John letter’.

OPINION: It is official - New Zealand's science system is broken.

OPINION: The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.

OPINION: "We are all in this waka together” which, when translated, becomes “He Waka Eke Noa”.

Michael Kiernan's lucerne crop was a godsend in the dry Southland summer this season.