Opinion
Keeping commuting workers safe
OPINION: Employers are responsible for keeping staff safe at work, but what on their way to work?
How dumb are we - really?
OPINION: We live in the information age, yet the Flat Earth Society and Gwyneth Paltrow are a real thing.
Democratising agriculture
OPINION: Trade Me digitised trust and democritised the process of online trading, what sorts of diversity can be achieved if agriculture is open to anybody?
Big challenges for wine industry
For those on the ground, the wine industry is very much at the mercy of climate change and adapting to it will be paramount, writes Neil Hodgson.
Fact is, we need rain
Weather reporters like to put a cheery spin on what they think we want to hear. We don't need opinions, writes Joyce Wylie. We just need some rain.
Greenpeace ban could backfire
OPINION: What Greenpeace really wants is to stop dairy farming, but banning nitrogen could actually mean more cows.
New tax no joy for farmers
OPINION: Other countries with a productive agricultural sector don't have these taxes so why should we?
Our objectification double-standard
OPINION: Here's why being gross about women is worse than being sketchy about men.
No more excuses farmers
OPINION: Quad bikes are a factor in approximately 25 percent of fatalities on farm. Every single one of us needs to take responsibility.
Selling to farmers isn't easy
OPINION: Farmers are famously hardworking and resilient. This also makes them the most difficult people on earth to make a profitable business out of.
Save 'industry' for the farm workers
There's plenty of hard work combined with fert and feed inputs in farming, but that doesn't make the average cocky an industrial enterprise, argues Lyn Webster.
'Fully recyclable'? No, it's not
OPINION: We all love convenience, and single-use packaging is so convenient.
Brexit: NZ farmers will tough it out
ANALYSIS: Back in the 1970's New Zealand was in a similar situation to where Britain is now when the UK joined the EEC.
Honey, your dinner's in the lab
OPINION: The future of food isn't veganism, it's "meat" grown in laboratories.
Farmers must abide by burning rules
OPINION: Federated Farmers strongly advocates the use of fire permits and cannot help those who do not use one.
Are farmers just whingers?
OPINION: A bunch of whingers, or hard done by? It's sometimes hard for farmers to get it right.
Summer senses
How different city summer sounds are compared with the noises our rural ears enjoy, writes Joyce Wyllie.
Time for a reckoning
OPINION: Have we lost touch with the harsh realities that keep us fed and watered?
Meat meals an iron-clad rule
Sure it's easy to over-indulge at this time of year, but Tom O'Connor is more wary of the creep of anaemia if he gives up his roast.
Super flyer or carbon guzzler?
OPINION: Is Air New Zealand's 639,000km super flyer a super carbon consumer?
Held hostage by extremists
OPINION: James Shaw wants to use the pretext of addressing carbon emissions to achieve his more brutal social agenda.
'No effluent excuses'
DairyNZ chairman Jim van der Poel has a message for farmers who are letting down the side.
The facts about nitrogen in horticulture
OPINION: The primary industries are working together to address both the real and perceived impacts of food production on the environment.
Climate problem bigger than fertiliser
OPINION: Calling synthetic nitrogen fertiliser a “truly gross, climate killing chemical” won't help us confront climate change.
Single solution to multiple problems
OPINION: A reduction in farming intensity is the perfect example of a single solution to multiple problems.
Where have all the sheep gone?
New Zealand's sheep population peaked at 70 million. Now there's less than 28 million.
Govt seeks urgent social media advice
Investment funds back calls for social media change
Taranaki oil and gas researcher digs deep
Business community counts losses
Anger over Facebook 'hate site'
Awakino gorge roadworks ready to start
Amaltal denies illegal fishing
Doctor's Whaleoil comments spark complaint
Forex trader admits to running $7m ponzi scheme