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THE AGRICULTURE sector is continuing to find the rocky road to a solution to ag emissions may be paved with good intentions, but the outcome is a mess. Ever since the formation of the Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership, made … Continue reading →

It is often said there are three things that regularly impact on farmers, which they cannot control: the Government, commodity prices and the weather. Unfortunately, in recent times it is severe weather that has affected farmers and growers in the … Continue reading →

WITH NOMINATIONS now closed for the local government elections to be held in October, it is time to start taking some real interest in the candidates standing and policies they support. Voters across the country will get to choose 1,600 … Continue reading →

NZ’S BIOSECURITY officials and services are rightly on high alert, following a recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in previously FMD-free Indonesia. Worryingly, viral FMD fragments were also recently discovered on pork imported into Australia from China. Any … Continue reading →

SINCE THE announcement of the trade agreement between NZ and the EU there has considerable outcry. Some farming leaders in the dairy and sheep & beef sectors argue that NZ should not have signed the deal, but soldiered on to … Continue reading →

JUST AS the entire country’s health system moved into a new structure last week, a fresh Rural Health Network was also launched. Hauora Taiwhenua brings into one organisation nine separate groups who work in the rural health sector – including … Continue reading →

A RECENT report on rural water schemes – commissioned by the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) – will do little to quell users’ concerns about the Government’s contentious 3 Waters reforms. Despite the Rural Supplies Technical Working Group’s (RSTWG) making … Continue reading →

THE INK was barely dry on the Government’s newly released emissions reductions plan before the whining began. “Agriculture – New Zealand’s largest emitting sector – has got off scot-free, again!” the whiners cried. “And it is getting $339m for a … Continue reading →

WHEN THE Covid pandemic broke out over two years ago, Jacinda Ardern waxed lyrical about the importance of the rural-based primary sector and how it would pull the NZ economy through the tough times ahead. It has delivered on that … Continue reading →

RECENTLY AGRICULTURE Minister Damien O’Connor made great fanfare when announcing a new farm planning system for farmers and growers. He claims that the Government will spend more than $25 million to “expand and strengthen” the primary industry advisory sector to … Continue reading →