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Allan Barber runs through the issues selling beef in international markets up against tariffs, retribution, great power struggles, and quotas. NZ sourced beef seems to have some good options still

Allan Barber runs through the issues selling beef in international markets up against tariffs, retribution, great power struggles, and quotas. NZ sourced beef seems to have some good options still

Allan Barber thinks 2026 has all the ingredients to be a good one for the rural community

Allan Barber thinks 2026 has all the ingredients to be a good one for the rural community

Allan Barber says we will look back on 2025 as a 'stellar year' for agriculture and one that will be hard to repeat

Allan Barber says we will look back on 2025 as a 'stellar year' for agriculture and one that will be hard to repeat

Alliance Group chairman acknowledges 'disappointing' financial result, but says meat co-operative is approaching better times

Alliance Group chairman acknowledges 'disappointing' financial result, but says meat co-operative is approaching better times

Alliance Group faces big issues over carbon farming and its own corporate structure in the wake of a proposed closure of its meat works in Timaru

Alliance Group faces big issues over carbon farming and its own corporate structure in the wake of a proposed closure of its meat works in Timaru

Allan Barber reviews Alliance Group's poor trading result and tries to make sense of the company's optimism in light of some strong market headwinds, as well as their capital structure that is not bolstered by others

Allan Barber reviews Alliance Group's poor trading result and tries to make sense of the company's optimism in light of some strong market headwinds, as well as their capital structure that is not bolstered by others

Allan Barber reviews the community effort going in to land restoration and the related workshop in the Mahurangi region. He also delves into an example of one farmer tackling his erosion problem

Allan Barber reviews the community effort going in to land restoration and the related workshop in the Mahurangi region. He also delves into an example of one farmer tackling his erosion problem

Allan Barber reports that meat processors are assessing the changes they will need to make as forest conversions eat into their livestock supply flows

Allan Barber reports that meat processors are assessing the changes they will need to make as forest conversions eat into their livestock supply flows

Allan Barber says allowing fossil fuel emitters to offset 100% of their emissions by carbon farming gives them an unjustified advantage over food farming land uses, hollowing out the hill country communities especially

Allan Barber says allowing fossil fuel emitters to offset 100% of their emissions by carbon farming gives them an unjustified advantage over food farming land uses, hollowing out the hill country communities especially

Gareth Vaughan on excuseflation, pure self interest in reducing livestock methane emissions, Dickensian law in Arkansas, & good work if you can get it

Gareth Vaughan on excuseflation, pure self interest in reducing livestock methane emissions, Dickensian law in Arkansas, & good work if you can get it

First the floods, then the diseases – why NZ should brace for outbreaks of spillover infections from animals

First the floods, then the diseases – why NZ should brace for outbreaks of spillover infections from animals

Angus Kebbell digs into the ground-breaking work that the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium are doing to reduce GHG emissions from livestock - and there is promising progress to report

Angus Kebbell digs into the ground-breaking work that the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium are doing to reduce GHG emissions from livestock - and there is promising progress to report

Guy Trafford points out that land use has always changed to respond to market signals, so it will continue to evolve as future signals bite. Adapting to a more 'sustainable' use requires you to read the signals well in advance

Guy Trafford points out that land use has always changed to respond to market signals, so it will continue to evolve as future signals bite. Adapting to a more 'sustainable' use requires you to read the signals well in advance

Guy Trafford finds there is something-for-everyone in the UN and IPCC documentation, enabling policy makers and those affected to talk past each other and still claim they are respecting these agreements

Guy Trafford finds there is something-for-everyone in the UN and IPCC documentation, enabling policy makers and those affected to talk past each other and still claim they are respecting these agreements

Guy Trafford takes a closer look at what the invasion of Ukraine means for food supplies and prices and how that may affect markets for New Zealand's products

Guy Trafford takes a closer look at what the invasion of Ukraine means for food supplies and prices and how that may affect markets for New Zealand's products