13 July 2020
We get a steady stream of visitors through here – quite a few from this long running saga I like to call a column, others from my broadcasting activities and the rest just wanting to have a look around the farm.
6 July 2020
Column deadline night but also an invitation for a Zoom meeting on sheep breeding.
What to do?
1 July 2020
A small victory for common sense came out of Auckland last week.
24 June 2020
In these troubled and uncertain times it’s great to live in a country where the single biggest issue of the week has been about statues.
15 June 2020
Level two, level four, level three, level two and now level one.
We’ve done very well as a nation to get to the position where it looks like we might very well have eradicated this virus from our shores though the future risk of importing it will remain a constant threat and a likelihood.
8 June 2020
This land is your land, and this land is my land, This land was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie wrote that in 1940 and it has become one of the United States’ most famous folk songs.
1 June 2020
Though all the news and happenings in the world that seemed so important before March appear to have completely disappeared, covid-19 and domestic politics have admirably filled the gap.
If they weren’t happening would our screens just be empty or full of snuffbumble, as the sports news is now?
25 May 2020
I've been keeping a farm diary since 1983, recording 37 years of toil and the blood, sweat and tears spilled onto the rich Hatuma soils.
My father kept one from the day we came to this farm on May 1 1963, 20 years before I took over.
18 May 2020
It was termed once-in-a-lifetime Budget and, given the circumstances from the last two months, it needed to be.
Old folk or students of history will know of another big deal Budget.
11 May 2020
From The Ridge (FTR): President Trump, thank you for agreeing to talk to me again, particularly in these trying times when I know you must be busy.
