2 September 2019
Amid all the debate about agriculture’s responsibility to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets and the appropriate levels for those targets it might seem counterintuitive to claim an equally pressing problem is to earn a licence to operate.
2 September 2019
There were a lot of us pretty annoyed last week when we read the piece Mike Joy and David Larsen wrote for the New York Times.
2 September 2019
We've been in Australia for the last few weeks and there is major concern over the trade war between the United States and China.
26 August 2019
The fine line between fact and satire became increasingly blurred with news last week United States President Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland.
26 August 2019
When I was on Federated Farmers board a few years ago I did a presentation to the council where I described farmers as being like possums in the headlights of an oncoming truck.
26 August 2019
We've been in Australia and the difference between the countries regarding their reaction to climate change is marked.
21 August 2019
I've been following the progress of the Zero Carbon Bill through Parliament.
As I’ve written, my problem with the legislation is that it won’t work but it’s also going to cost the country plenty.
19 August 2019
It was in the wind that Fonterra was going to announce some bad news but the scale of what came out last week was shocking.
Dairy farmers have every right to be disappointed and angry with their co-operative.
19 August 2019
New Zealand has always had poor native biodiversity.
What a contrast to Africa with 1150 species of mammals, 68 species of snakes, 431 species of birds and 1279 species of freshwater fish.
19 August 2019
In contrast to its positive social agenda to improve the average person’s lot by lifting the minimum wage, increasing teachers’ pay rates and trying to increase home ownership, this Government seems to have gone missing in action with respect to the farming sector.
