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Enough is enough! That’s our message to the nutter or nutters responsible for the latest food safety scare to hit the dairy industry.

Welcome to 2015. A new year, new opportunities and a new vintage.

A new year and a new – while yet familiar – set of challenges face New Zealand’s agricultural sector.

NEW ZEALAND’S farming future is not just black and white or – at least – just black and white dairy cows.

‘WE NEED the resources to keep the drive for change moving.’ That’s the plea from meat industry reform lobby group MIE (Meat Industry Excellence) in asking farmers to support its remit for funding from Beef + Lamb NZ (BLNZ).  This and other remits will be voted on at BLNZ’s annual meeting in Feilding on March 14.

THE LATEST media beat-up on Fonterra’s fresh cream recall cannot go unchallenged.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA cries of crisis over the so-called buttermilk lake near Taupo again shows how far our townie cousins are from the real world. A lake of buttermilk seems to be perceived as a national environmental disaster up there with the MV Rena.

QUESTIONS ARE piling up as the Government launches its inquiry into Fonterra’s false botulism scare.

DAIRY FARMERS have been on a rollercoaster of late – especially given the daily misfortunes of Fonterra and its botulism debacle. To see their industry ‘in lights’ in the international media, and being described as less than perfect, has been distressing.

A RECENT Agribusiness Agenda report - Vol 1: State of the Nation - suggests a need for much greater understanding of the agribusiness sector by the country’s wider population.