From the CEO: Our Good Reputation
OPINION: Harvest begins, and almost immediately we start to get media enquiries about how the vintage is going and whether it…
OPINION: Sobering is perhaps the best word to describe the latest Situation and Outlook report on Primary Industries (SOPI) produced by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
OPINION: To Paraphrase the Monty Python dead parrot sketch, it looks as though the much maligned and deeply unpopular He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) agricultural emissions plan has: … ‘… passed on! Is no more! Has ceased to be! Expired and gone to meet its maker! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!’
OPINION: It's safe to say that He Waka Eke Noa - the industry and government partnership to deal with emissions pricing - is dead in the water.
OPINION: With National Fieldays around the corner, many farmers will be making their annual pilgrimage to Mystery Creek this year.
OPINION: Vintage 2023 saw a welcome return to melting pot wineries, as companies threw open their doors to global wine workers, with all the excitement, experience and insights they offer.
OPINION: It's not common for industry-good body, DairyNZ and farmerowned co-operative LIC to publicly disagree on a key issue facing the dairy sector.
OPINION: Farmers and growers in Hawke’s Bay are rightly angry and frustrated at the lack of action from Wellington in sorting out a recovery plan for them.
OPINION: As the Galloway Express left Port Taranaki last month with cattle for China, it marked the end of livestock export.
OPINION: The National Party’s election pitch to farmers will likely bring much joy to a primary sector that feels drained by over-regulation, labour shortages, rising interest rates, inflation, and the terrible woes of a series of climatic disasters.
OPINION: News that about 17% of the national herd of 4 million cows did not get pregnant and won't be producing milk in the coming season will come as a blow to many farmers and the economy of the country.
OPINION: Harvest begins, and almost immediately we start to get media enquiries about how the vintage is going and whether it…
OPINION: Rachael Cook is the smiling grape grower on this month’s cover, tending vines on the miniscule, beautiful and dream-driven vineyard…
New Zealand wine enthusiasts have a deepening understanding and growing appreciation of sparkling wine, says Mel Skinner, Chair of Méthode Marlborough…
One of the biggest mistakes wine marketers make is in assuming consumers are as passionate and knowledgeable about wine as…
Taking two sustainability awards at two events on a single evening felt like "true recognition" of the work Lawson's Dry…