12 March 2019
Good, robust debate on key issues is important if New Zealand is to continue as a progressive, forward-thinking democracy.
But that sort of high-quality, informed debate can happen only when it is based on facts.
12 March 2019
Every business has to find an appropriate balance between long and short term planning and farming is no exception.
But, given farmers are very capable of planning and implementing their annual farm strategy, the long term offers the greater challenge.
11 March 2019
The entire debate over nitrogen fertiliser annoys me because it is both ignorant and ill informed. I was being polite.
6 March 2019
For the record, I don’t have problem with a capital gains tax provided it is broad-based and simple to administer.
By my research 20 countries have a CGT and New Zealand is alone in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in not having one.
6 March 2019
Anyone reading the official information from the Primary Industries Ministry would be entitled to believe the Mycoplasma bovis eradication campaign is going remarkably well.
6 March 2019
The recommendations from the Tax Working Group came out a couple of weeks ago.
Possibly the worst kept secret or else unsurprising recommendations were the result. And the resulting furore and objections was equally unsurprising.
4 March 2019
Getting compensation for loss is never as straightforward as you’d like it to be – whether you are dealing with an insurer, a commercial partner or the government the process is always time-consuming and often frustrating.
25 February 2019
Since its start date of July 1 2017 the New Zealand Farm Assurance Programme has generated a high uptake by processors and producers with a significant level of success.
According to Red Meat Profit Partnership project manager Pat Turton nearly 3000 farms are registered and more than 80% of them have already been audited.
25 February 2019
The first time I drove past the billboard saying Ravensdown and Ballance pollute rivers I did a double-take.
Auckland’s billboards are often standard but every now and then there’s a campaign that grabs people’s attention – last year there was a marriage proposal.
25 February 2019
I was really pleased to see Farmers Weekly raising the issue of urban sprawl over good farmland.
It is a subject that is vital for our future and needs major debate.
