29 October 2019
If you haven’t been subject to one you are likely to know someone who has and, despite good intentions, it might be only a matter of time before your farming operation is feeling the heat of a council prosecution.
22 October 2019
New Zealand’s waterways are mostly pretty good in terms of being safe to swim in.
Certainly, I know of no deaths or even serious illness directly or indirectly attributed to swimming in a NZ river because of contamination from industrial, agricultural or municipal causes.
14 October 2019
One of farming’s great challenges is that so much of your success is dictated by factors beyond your direct control, whether that be international commodity markets, weather, processing company performance or regulation.
7 October 2019
In the past few weeks I’ve attended meetings about the Government’s freshwater proposals and visited farms around the country.
2 October 2019
As dairy farmers work through calving it is time to think about the welfare of calves.
18 September 2019
The Farmers Weekly of August 19 was great reading. I wish urbanites knew what great minds we have working in agriculture.
9 September 2019
The heading in the Farmers Weekly August 19, It’s a laughing stock, does neither the paper or the readers justice.
2 September 2019
In the 1960s the old Patangata County Council, now the eastern portion of Central Hawke’s Bay District, embarked on an ill-considered scheme to plant the road verges in radiata pines.
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.
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.
