24 October 2018
Pure Hawke’s Bay members Bruno Chambers, David Cranwell, Phyllis Tichinin and John Bostock are alarmed by the views on gene editing expressed by the Royal Society. The put their heads together to put the case against using the technology.
24 October 2018
Ngongotaha calf rearer Patricia Hosking has written an open letter to Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor to voice her concerns about the health of calf offered for sale.
23 October 2018
Seven years ago, the last time lamb prices were as high as they have been for the last 12 months, overseas customers suddenly decided enough was enough and turned off the tap, causing a sharp drop in price that reached its low point of less than $4.50 a kilo more than a year later.
17 October 2018
Two items out last week increase the scrutiny and highlight the impacts our sector faces, whether you believe it or whether you like it.
16 October 2018
Just as a farming season flies past so does the political year.
11 October 2018
It was the letter I had been expecting but I waited till it arrived to decide if the rumours were true.
As is often the case in rural circles, speculation about a massive hike in shearing prices nationwide has been circling for most of 2018.
10 October 2018
In the crusade to both normalise and encourage women as leaders and into our boardrooms many have latched onto the idea that women equal diversity.
As this idea has been promoted there has been a collective sigh of relief based on an assumption it is now a socially comfortable way of advocating for gender equality.
10 October 2018
In the first of a two-part series putting Fonterra’s Chinese farms under scrutiny Keith Woodford describes how Fonterra trapped itself into factory farming. The focus of this issue is on the origins of how Fonterra managed to entangle itself in its loss-making China Farms project.
10 October 2018
After three weeks on holiday in Japan I am still reeling from the enormous contrast to any other country I have ever visited.
When I first went there on business 40 years ago I was getting used to life in New Zealand after migrating from the United Kingdom so probably didn’t register the size of the contrast, apart from the total lack of any street signs in English and the politeness of the people.
10 October 2018
The Government must love Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage.
Whereas James Shaw comes across as rational and prepared to listen, Sage comes across as anything but.
