PLUG contends that Taxing Agriculture Production is really dumb!! The Primary Land Use Group (PLUG) has been in existence for about 5 years. The Group came about as the Rural…
Stuff on 13th March published an article from the Economist headlined as above! Russia and Ukraine, respectively the largest and fifth-largest wheat exporters, together account for 29 per cent of…
A knife in the throat of Democracy So the government and in particular the Maori Caucus are adamant that we need to implement the Three Waters Reforms. Personally I have…
New Zealand produces enough food to feed 40 million people a year; so why do our groceries cost so much to buy here in New Zealand? According to Statistics New…
The Primary Land Users Group (PLUG) have been advocating over the last six years for a program to be established to control/eradicate Koi Carp. Koi Carp are shown on…
Water is a necessity of life for both the human race and for the many different forms of farming. The average farmer knows this and as any good business operator…
New Zealand as a country is no different to us as individuals when it comes to expenses and paying the bills! We borrow money sometimes to allow us to, have…
Let’s be clear: humankind made a conscious decision to engineer the land to produce food. We introduced strategies around soil health, water and fertilizer, to make sure we have food…
The Christchurch City Council draft annual plan for 2022 proposes increasing rates by an additional 4.82%. Assuming that this rate rise proceeds; the Dalziel-led council will have super-sized the average…
The Maori Development Minister; Willie Jackson, recently described as an influential “power broker” in a NZ Herald article, is telling New Zealanders that we have nothing to fear from the…