![Ella Jensen: Embracing tech to reduce the farming footprint](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Ella Jensen: Embracing tech to reduce the farming footprint
It is time to re-open a nation-wide dialogue on the use of genetic technologies.
It is time to re-open a nation-wide dialogue on the use of genetic technologies.
Comment: Trees have become a hot topic with farmers lately, and with good reason.
Sector directors face difficult decisions as excess demand looms to swallow dividends.
The scheme must be part of a strategy making energy fairly accessible to all of us.
A real resource management act would focus on actual public good problems.
Comment: Free speech and opinions are important - but so is science.
Comment: Waikato dairy farmer Sam Owen shares his mental health story.
Comment: Bruce Eade's story shows how farmers can effectively communicate with urbanites.
Drought, Covid-19, now flooding puts more pressure on communities, businesses and farmers.
Comment: It's time farmers get the lowered interest rates they deserve.
$30m is worth paying to investigate scheme that would help decarbonise energy.
Comment: There is no reason why we can't see more women directors in the agri-sector.
Comment: Pete Fitz-Herbert worries his idyllic, rural life may be making him a dinosaur.
Weekly column by Kāpiti's Greater Wellington Regional Council representative Penny Gaylor.
For decades agriculture and horticulture has been the back bone of our economy
Comment: Stats NZ emissions report needs a different approach says Feds' Andrew Hoggard.
Growing microgreens from seed is relatively straight forward.
Comment: Aspirations to create a better world overlook the realities in food production.
"None of us went farming to fill in boxes and sit in front of computers all day long"
Comment: Instead of a deal that's best for the smelter, how about what's best for NZ?
Comment: Why are we importing junk aluminium while making some of the best in the world?
It would be laughable if it wasn't so shameful.
Plastic recycling plan must include agriculture before food basket becomes a waste basket.
Nothing illustrates this problem better than the Green Party's Clean Energy Plan.
Comment: Don't worry, says Dr Rowarth, drinking water won't give you colorectal cancer.
Politics shouldn't be the driving force in the farming industry, writes Kerry Worsnop.
Accoya requires pruned, well-grown radiata pine logs and NZ is the best place for that.
Comment: Feds president takes a look at Govt's latest primary sector plan.
Covid, drought and uncertainty have tested many of us in ways we could not have foreseen.
Comment: The sector could do with more understanding and encouragement, not more nudges.