Frances Sweetman: Smeltdown in the electricity sector
Sector directors face difficult decisions as excess demand looms to swallow dividends.
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Hydro storage plan stirs NZ energy use debate
The scheme must be part of a strategy making energy fairly accessible to all of us.
Bryce Wilkinson: The wrong direction for RMA reform
A real resource management act would focus on actual public good problems.
The anti-science myth: Why we need sceptics and bargepoles
Comment: Free speech and opinions are important - but so is science.
Comment: The moment I knew I needed help
Comment: Waikato dairy farmer Sam Owen shares his mental health story.
Comment: A farmer's tale - 25 years of highs and lows
Comment: Bruce Eade's story shows how farmers can effectively communicate with urbanites.
Challenging year brings us together
Drought, Covid-19, now flooding puts more pressure on communities, businesses and farmers.
Dr Rowarth: Rethinking the use of technology in food production
Comment: Technological development in sustainable food production is important.
Have a go – plant some broad beans today!
Broad beans are very easy to care for, suffering very few pests and disease.
Comment: Is it time Reserve Bank went into bat for farmers?
Comment: It's time farmers get the lowered interest rates they deserve.
Brian Fallow: Lake Onslow hydro storage scheme is no pipe dream
$30m is worth paying to investigate scheme that would help decarbonise energy.
Comment: Why we need more women in agri-sector boardrooms
Comment: There is no reason why we can't see more women directors in the agri-sector.
Comment: Thoughts from a rural dinosaur
Comment: Pete Fitz-Herbert worries his idyllic, rural life may be making him a dinosaur.
Keeping pest animals and plants in check
Weekly column by Kāpiti's Greater Wellington Regional Council representative Penny Gaylor.
What the world still needs and we can provide
For decades agriculture and horticulture has been the back bone of our economy
Comment: Emissions comparison needs to be on level playing paddock
Comment: Stats NZ emissions report needs a different approach says Feds' Andrew Hoggard.
Gareth Carter: Microgreens and sprouts - easy to grow and so tasty
Growing microgreens from seed is relatively straight forward.
Comment: Why the regenerative farming dream won't come true
Comment: Aspirations to create a better world overlook the realities in food production.
Rowena Duncum: The one day I enjoyed politics
Comment: Politics is becoming a steady progression for the exit door.
Audrey Young: Ardern v Collins must force election rethink
COMMENT: National and Labour will need to rethink their election strategies and messages.
Andrew Hoggard: Putting the fun back in farming
"None of us went farming to fill in boxes and sit in front of computers all day long"
Another move in the long Tiwai Pt chess game
Comment: Instead of a deal that's best for the smelter, how about what's best for NZ?
Peters: Tiwai smelter must be saved
Comment: Why are we importing junk aluminium while making some of the best in the world?
Gavin Evans: Smelter jobs sacrificed to confused energy policy
It would be laughable if it wasn't so shameful.
Comment: Govt must step in to boost rural recycling
Plastic recycling plan must include agriculture before food basket becomes a waste basket.
Roger Partridge: Greens guilty of gilding the lily
Nothing illustrates this problem better than the Green Party's Clean Energy Plan.
Comment: The myth about nitrate in drinking water
Comment: Don't worry, says Dr Rowarth, drinking water won't give you colorectal cancer.
Farmer: Planting farms a 'skinny sheep' idea
Politics shouldn't be the driving force in the farming industry, writes Kerry Worsnop.
NZ's good radiata pine an opportunity for Accoya industry
Accoya requires pruned, well-grown radiata pine logs and NZ is the best place for that.
Andrew Hoggard: What stands in the way of Govt plans for primary sector
Comment: Feds president takes a look at Govt's latest primary sector plan.
How farming must juggle uncertainty and opportunity
Covid, drought and uncertainty have tested many of us in ways we could not have foreseen.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Stop nudging the primary sector
Comment: The sector could do with more understanding and encouragement, not more nudges.
Bridging the gap: Feds boss on her achievements
Comment: "What a ride!" Katie Milne reflects on her achievements as Feds president.
Opinion: Measurable limits on nitrogen and phosphorus a must to protect waterways ecology
Regenerative agriculture over unsustainable dependence on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.