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Enjoy great tomato prices while you can

This week I will start with a handy tip: enjoy your cheap tomatoes as the flush is nearly over and prices will increase with demand

Managing land, water imperative for region

I would like to thank the people of Horowhenua and Kairanga for re-electing me for another term on Horizons Regional Council. We

Opinion: Key era one giant facepalm

COMMENT: I'm not gonna lie. I'm glad to see the back end of him. Clothed, of course, writes Rachel Stewart.

Smoking, the good old days

"You won't remember me," a fellow retiree said in town the other day. He was wrong. Vague memories surfaced of learning to swim

Kristy McGregor: Local values and waterways

Stock access to water can be an emotive issue that sparks strong reactions. It is critical in the debate about water quality and

Play by the rules or get pinged

One of the issues that has been much discussed of late has been the enforcement of resource consents. In recent weeks Hawke's Bay

Politicians failing to front up

As I write my final contribution for the year (and - as I am about to leave Whanganui - for the foreseeable future), I am thinking

Industry should be classed high-risk

Struggling with planting some tropical-looking plants I asked a neighbour to help lift them because they had spiky shards. "It is

Peters: Where to now for Northland?

For two weeks now the nation's attention has been on the upper South Island as the residents there struggle to get their lives on

Dom 'Furious' George - Grin and beer it

Dom lovingly recounts The Country beer brewing process in association with Emerson's Brewery and under the iron-fist of Jamie Mackay.

Silke Whittaker: You can't drink money

I feel I really need to voice my concerns regarding the water issues that we are having in Hawke's Bay and that have become very obvious

Tinkering with the RMA makes it worse

As a result of last week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the government is considering emergency legislation to get Kaikoura back up and

Brad Markham: Farm Life In Taradise continued

The farm's been rattled by earthquakes, buffeted by ferocious winds and battered by horizontal rain this month.

Dam has building consent, should proceed

With the changing of the guard in the Hawke's Bay Regional Council, there has been a lot of rhetoric and noise about the future of

Jamie Mackay's From the Lip - aftershocks and shocking omissions

The Country host Jamie Mackay reflects on some seismic shifts in the rural community.

Rob Butcher: The answers lie in the soil

Edward O. Wilson is the legendary biologist, famous for making us aware of the "square foot of soil" beneath our feet. He says for