COMMENT: Taking Donald Trump at his word, his election heralds a trade war, a recession, and a setback for climate change efforts.

Sheep and cattle eat grass and grass is green, just like the Irish rugby jersey, which is a good excuse to discuss the test in Chicago

It needs to be clear that I support water storage. In fact, I am in the camp that water storage will be absolutely vital to the future

With better weather, salad time is here. There are good supplies of avocados, cucumbers, lettuces and tomatoes in the marketplace

The state of the "Quarry Hill" section of Waimarama Rd has been a hot topic among locals living along the route to one of our most

I am unable to grasp why so many people are against the dam. In his Talking Point (Thursday, November 3) Brian Anderson, a retired

COMMENT: Post-truth politics is all about creating a feeling or emotion, rather than acknowledging policy or facts.

I suppose enough has been said in opposition and support over the construction of the Ruataniwha Dam project. I myself cannot understand

COMMENT: Auditor-General's findings are a scathing assessment of the lack of transparency, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

Jim Hopkins on Farmwatch - "Dairy is our media's Donald Trump - the thing they love to hate."

One of the problems we face in an increasingly interconnected global society is that bombarded as we are by competing opinions it

The debates about the appropriateness of the resource consent process and the potential impact on the aquifer and the value of these

Not many Kiwis may be satisfied by the Auditor General's report into the propriety of the Government's gift of a sheep-breeding establishment to a breeder in Saudi Arabia.

Failure to advance a free trade agreement did not stop the entourage of journalists accompanying the Prime Minister from publishing

I write this to help Tim Gilbertson and others understand how they have been duped by selective and misleading information regarding

Dom George bemoans the fate of the cheeky Kea who lost out to the vote-fixing Kokako as Bird of the Year.

They abound across both Canada and the USA - the puppy mills. They are large-scale commercial dog breeding facilities where profit

Has the newly elected anti-dam Hawkes Bay Regional Council bitten off more than it can chew? It has certainly grabbed a big

Getting children interested in agriculture is important if we want our future agriculture workforce to come from within New Zealand.

If there's one issue that could be the making of the Hawke's Bay region, it's taking a stand on genetically modified (GM) food production. Just

Dom George reckons New Zealand need a healthy dose of anarchy and dissent and we could learn this from the Icelandic people.

Federated Farmers is staunch on the importance of good evidence. If we have a good grip on the size and shape of the problem, we are

COMMENT: My lunch guest was the alleged fraudster at the heart of the expired milk products scam, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.

Last week I warned of upcoming shortages on some green vegetable lines, well it started last Thursday morning when I walked onto the

As someone who emigrated to the East Coast from CHB over 50 years ago, I can speak with some authority on matters relating to personal

Eight years under the Key government and provincial New Zealand is still being left to battle on to keep their regional economies

It's good to see some positive signs on the dairy horizon after a busy and stressful couple of years. This has been compounded by

I'm sure we're not alone in being completely bored with this constant rain. It is causing havoc on our orchards as they attempt

A few weeks ago I spent a busy couple of days in the city of Piura in Peru, South America, attending an APEC Food Security meeting. The