Sutton: Forests needed to save planet
On a per capita basis we contribute more greenhouses gases than the US or China.
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Lessons from Havelock North water crisis
The Havelock North contamination outbreak was always an event waiting to happen.
Hosking: The cost of restricting land sales
COMMENT: Here's what I know. When you list your house, you want top dollar - from anywhere
Perley: Fed Farmers need radical thinking
Traditional mindset at risk because discerning markets want safe, quality food.
Nathan Guy: Horowhenua Taste Trail boost for local producers
Horowhenua's Taste Trail last weekend was a huge success
Sean Connelly: Harvesting experience feeds progress
The best ways to a better food system have been gathered for sharing, writes Sean Connelly
Ewan McGregor: One billion trees need sensible management
Wholesale forest destruction has come at an enormous environmental cost.
Brian Gaynor: Focused a2 shows how it's done, who's next?
COMMENT: Successful companies are all about strategy and execution and a2 has excelled.
No joy in supporting 1080
Negative rumours abound about 1080 but proof of facts is harder to come by.
What makes farming so special?
COMMENT: In fighting emissions, should agriculture get a better deal than others?
Chairman steps down from the Beef + Lamb board
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) chairman James Parsons will not seek re-election
Editorial: Mud-slinging countered with icecreams
Battle looms over how many cows is the right number of cows
Rural Ramblings: How to fowl up a diagnosis
Animals make life tricky on the farm — as usual, says Julie Paton
Alastair Scott: Lack of certainty surrounds new Government
Aspirations are admirable but now the new Government has to be accountable.
Excessive focus on Auckland highlighted
Waterview's cost benefit is down there with Muldoon's methanol plant.
Fonterra's spin makes me want to throw up
COMMENT: Fonterra's waterways plan requires a bucket, writes Rachel Stewart.
Lisa Harper: Farm forestry has potential
With new Government, the complex issues around forestry may get greater focus.
Conservation Comment: We can't even protect sheep
Kids with facts behind them will become the best police of all to protect native species.
We could get a new consensus on trade agreements
Business should help to build a new consensus on NZ's trade agreements.
Meat exports still gain from revised TPP
Opinion: The agreement on TPP at Da Nang will be good for New Zealand's beef exports.
Gerard Pain: Plan B, C ... for water storage
We have nothing to show for the $20 million of ratepayer money that was spent of the RWSS.
Bala Tikkisetty: Cultivate with care after the big wet
Farmers are currently cultivating their paddocks for pasture or crop rotation.
Comment: Farmers key to climate solution, but at what cost?
If we want to fix the global environmental problems it will have to be up to the farmers.
Addressing our nature deficit
It's said that separating people from nature leads to increased stress.
When shadows attack and Velcro snaps
There is a fairly comprehensive list of things that worry and perplex Bryn.
Fran O'Sullivan: No TPP glory for Trump
OPINION: While US President was flattered, other nations worked on a trade deal.
Comment: Young Farmer TV snub a disgrace
Decision not to air Young Farmer contest makes a mockery of claims to support NZ culture.
The TPP done deal that turned out not to be
How Trade Ministers from 11 nations made a blunder of Oscars Best Picture proportions.