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Organics Aoteaora New Zealand (OANZ) says the Green Party's misrepresentation of the 2016 New Zealand Organic Market Report is not acceptable.

Your old mate notes that Greenpeace is challenging Fonterra to "prove that its massive use of palm products is not fuelling the enormous fires raging across Indonesia".

Feedback on the TPP from agribusinesses has been mostly positive, but the same cannot be said for most political parties. Here's an offering of what some of our political parties have to say;

The Hound reckons the Green Party’s former agriculture spokesman Steffan Browning is hypocritical in his recent attack on the appointment of the new boss of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr Alan Freeth.

The Hound reckons if you needed any more proof of how much the Greens loathe farming, look at the recent reshuffling of its portfolio responsibilities.

The Green Party is citing a lack of farmer support as a reason to pull the on the Ruataniwha dam proposal. 

The Hound knows that the Greens hate farming about as much as they hate cars.

Environmental lobbyists will go to any length to push for fewer cows in New Zealand.

WINNING THE national winner title in the 2013 Ballance Farm Environment Awards has opened up a whole world of opportunity for Canterbury farmers Craige and Roz Mackenzie.

IrrigationNZ chairperson Nicky Hyslop says Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty has overlooked the environmental benefits of the proposed Waimea Community Dam.