Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:03 pm, June 20th, 2023 - 21 comments
Categories: election 2023, national, political parties, Politics
Tags: democracynz, northland, sarcasm, schism
… operated his Maungaturoto beef and dairy farm since 1995. He serves…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:55 pm, February 9th, 2022 - 24 comments
Categories: chris bishop, Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national, uncategorized
Tags: cameron slater, carrick graham, Food and grocery council, katherine rich
… things like sugar, tobacco, and dairy products on public health. [Carrick…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:14 am, July 18th, 2019 - 4 comments
Categories: climate change, Economy, Environment, farming, Politics, science
Tags: brian easton, CO2, methane, pundit
… numbers of larger ruminants like dairy cows. In effect he is…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:46 pm, November 28th, 2018 - 134 comments
Categories: China, Economy, International, The Standard
Tags: anne-marie brady, bigots, fran o'sullivan, ruth richardson
…). And that the originally private dairy company – which was led by…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:55 pm, June 9th, 2018 - 63 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: demographics, populism
… centres and the areas where dairy has boosted already low populations…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:23 am, November 13th, 2017 - 124 comments
Categories: Economy, International, labour
Tags: coalition, CPTPP, TPPA, TPPA-11, trade
… like the excessive intensification of dairying on unsuitable soil and drainage…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:11 am, October 4th, 2017 - 25 comments
Categories: act, climate change, ETS, farming, global warming, greens, International, labour, national, nz first, same old national, science
Tags: dairynz, federated farmers
…largest single greenhouse emitter industry, dairy. This caused a massive land…farming and forestry industries into dairying. At the same time they…like tourism (larger than the dairy industry) that rely on … by taking land away from dairy. BTW: If the Greens …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:41 am, July 24th, 2017 - 25 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, bill english, C&R, Economy, im/migration, local government, national/act government
Tags: auckland council, nzta
… kilometres (Drury) or 28 km (Dairy Flat) from the city centre…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:05 am, March 15th, 2017 - 10 comments
Categories: Parliament
Tags: jenny kirk, resource amendment legislation act, resource management act
lprent: Jenny Kirk asked that this … instance, corporates with highly intensive dairying operations. In most regional plans…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:22 am, March 15th, 2017 - 13 comments
Categories: housing, im/migration, local government, maori party, marama fox, national, nick smith, same old national
Tags: GE, polity, resource management act, rma
… water resources for more intensive dairying, resulting in a catastrophic drop…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:01 am, October 21st, 2016 - 45 comments
Categories: business, Economy, exports, farming, trade
Tags: dairy, tech, TIN100
…favourable since the goddamn commodity dairy price dropped like a …the export earnings gap between dairy and tech". Leaving aside …from the crap prices for dairy and the consequent short-…employed in the whole anaemic dairy industry that this government likes…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:17 am, September 21st, 2016 - 23 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, farming
Tags: boondoggle, fish and game, greenpeace, irrigation, MPI, Nathan Guy
…will be intensive dairy farms or dairy support. Whilst a…significant turbulence in international dairy markets, with near record…structural change in international dairy prices, driven the following…for the majority of dairy producers internationally (so …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:15 am, October 6th, 2015 - 177 comments
Categories: accountability, john key, phil goff, Politics, trade
Tags: flag referendum, tim groser, TPPA
… full implemented by sector are: Dairy $102 million Meat $72 million…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:51 am, August 31st, 2015 - 37 comments
Categories: China, Economy, john key, national
Tags: austrailia, The Economist, the guardian, washington post
… Key government's headlong pursuit of dairy and other agricultural/forestry commodity… of the state to favour dairy. This leaves us at the… entering the low bar of dairy farming, but also to downturns…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:37 am, August 19th, 2015 - 59 comments
Categories: Economy, farming
Tags: auction, dairy, fonterra, mike hosking
… current conditions in the global dairy markets, we have further modified… wake up to the headline "Dairy prices rise sharply at latest… shown a steady rise in dairy inventories (gotta get to work… 3 years about where the dairy market is heading. They have…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:52 pm, August 1st, 2015 - 52 comments
Categories: International, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, trade, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: claire trevett, fran o'sullivan, john roughan, tpp, TPPA, trans-pacific partnership
… and leave TPP without good dairy deal – but he probably won't… to champion but not to dairy farmers? Ah what? Perhaps Claire…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:14 am, July 6th, 2015 - 45 comments
Categories: bill english, exports, farming, national, same old national
Tags: dairy, r&d
…help cushion the impact on dairy of their lower prices." …over the last 5 years dairy exports accounted for something …id="" align="aligncenter" width="592"] Dairy exports in NZ dollar terms…change in export returns for dairy derived directly or indirectly …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:44 am, January 5th, 2015 - 94 comments
Categories: Economy, exports, farming, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags: dairy, nz herald
…and Treasury jitters at dairy price" Dairy farmers and the Treasury… of the last international dairy auction for 2014, which… western food products – mostly dairy – continues to destabilise the … cent, according to Global Dairy Trade data. Mass marketing …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:32 am, December 2nd, 2014 - 26 comments
Categories: Economy, exports, farming, trade
Tags: balance of trade, dairy, stats
…, led by dairy and forestry products. Excluding dairy, the fall … "Beef boom partly offsets dairy dive". Spinning under a National…all year. Essentially the dairy boom that National has been… recorded by Fonterra's global dairy auctions since February has …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:58 pm, November 16th, 2014 - 56 comments
Categories: david parker, grant robertson, labour, Nanaia Mahuta
Tags: Labour leadership
… negative sum businesses like selling dairy commodities, crony capitalism rentiers, and…
Written By: redfed - Date published: 9:00 am, August 19th, 2014 - 67 comments
Categories: john key, Judith Collins, national, national/act government
Tags:
… that deals with New Zealand dairy products, and a senior Chinese… Slater had received the information. lprent has highlighted an astounding instance…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:42 am, July 30th, 2014 - 35 comments
Categories: Economy, Environment, farming, national, same old national
Tags: dairy
… South Canterbury Federated Farmers dairy chairman Ryan O'Sullivan said … another illustration of the dairy industry's volatility. "The …a fundamental demand for dairy throughout the world. Hardly…strip the processing of dairy from our manufacturing sector,…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:03 am, July 20th, 2014 - 40 comments
Categories: nz first
Tags: conference
… economy on issues like dirty dairy. By the sound of it…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:41 pm, July 6th, 2014 - 109 comments
Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, labour
Tags:
… Canterbury rebuild insurance cheques and dairy exports from the deal Labour… let’s do it together. lprent updated: This is the final…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:44 am, July 2nd, 2014 - 90 comments
Categories: Economy, exports, farming
Tags: dairy
…prices drops. Stuff reports Dairy prices have resumed their slide… the overall pricing for dairy products. NZ are essentially…over countries domestic or regional dairy production. We are literally… strip the processing of dairy from our manufacturing sector,…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:10 pm, June 12th, 2014 - 116 comments
Categories: blogs, christchurch earthquake, David Farrar, Economy, employment, manufacturing
Tags: 9th floor, hypocrisy, kiwiblog, sewer
…manufacturing looks like without the dairy and meat in the following… the upturn in this non-dairy and meat "manufacturing" sales,…the buildup of stockpiles of dairy and meat products. The …StatsNZ commentary says about dairy and meat that… The volume…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:30 pm, May 23rd, 2014 - 37 comments
Categories: Economy
Tags: economist
… economic growth outside of the dairy sector. They simply haven't been… been incapable of seeing past dairy for the past 5 years…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:51 am, May 8th, 2014 - 51 comments
Categories: Economy
Tags: dairy, exports, graeme wheeler, reserve bank
…internationally traded price of dairy products. Prices are still…interesting to see that dairy farmers themselves are increasingly… align="alignnone" width="594"] Dairy exports in $NZ[/caption] … width="573"] Dairy debt (June years) "Dairy debt almost trebled…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:54 am, April 30th, 2014 - 77 comments
Categories: Economy, exports, farming, jobs, manufacturing, national, same old national
Tags: dairy farming, david farrar
…value for the March year. Dairy exports are up massively. …The problem is that dairy exports provide us with minimal…at the massive gains in dairy exports, the gains almost …stuffed into the trough of dairy companies that they really couldn't…
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