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Ewan McGregor: Lesson to be learned from radiata pines

New Zealand can take satisfaction from its forestry ethic

Comment: Crown Research Institutes are dragging down our universities

Comment: Something like $750 million goes to CRIs, money universities would cherish.

Comment: Why Shane Jones' Billion Tree scheme will fail

Comment: China takes 75% of our logs, you could say we have all our logs in one basket.

Boyd Swinburn: Food for thought - drastic change needed

COMMENT: We need to collectively understand the urgent need for systemic transformation.

Hosking: Westland Milk sale will see xenophobes out in force

Comment: "Foreign investment, like it or not, makes this country run."

Sir Rob Fenwick: Auckland needs regional composting plant now

COMMENT: Urban dwellers can do so much more for the well-being of our soil.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why gun recall will backfire

COMMENT: The gun buy-back is doomed to fail. It's being done on the cheap.

Soper: What happened to tackling bottled water exporters?

COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that we all own the water for the purposes of export?

Hawkesby: Angry farmers blame beastly behaviour from MPI in M. bovis saga

COMMENT: Angry farmers say one of their colleagues committed suicide.

Hawkesby: Where's the support for farmers battling Mycoplasma bovis?

COMMENT: Critics say poor communication from MPI continues to cause anguish.

Editorial: Sorry James Cameron, the end isn't nigh for NZ meat farmers

EDITORIAL: Despite hype about Impossible Burgers, global meat consumption is on the rise.

Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too

COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.

Comment: The 10 biggest stories in farming over the past 25 years

Jamie Mackay looks back on a quarter of a century in radio.

Rachel Stewart: Dignified death of a feisty farm cat

COMMENT: This isn't really a column about my dead cat, though it might appear that way.

Hawkesby: No Mike, not all people who can't find work are lazy

COMMENT: If you have to pay $17.70 an hour now, why hire an inexperienced employee?

Hosking: Lazy Kiwis refuse to work in orchards for good money

COMMENT: Some work-shy people are slack, lazy, can't be bothered, interested in excuses.