Most station wagons have those, unless they are Citroens with self-levelling suspension.

Some property rights believers they are.

Because Amigas relied on extra custom coprocessors to handle audio, video & direct memory there'd have been more chips to loosen I guess. The last working Amiga I saw was twelve years ago, a 2000 set up as…

The later incarnation of the graphics-geek friendly Amiga was hyped by the…

Was this still the case in the late 80s or early 90s, when TV's Country Calendar was officially brought to you "by the Lada Niva, Cossack and Tigre"? I would have been pretty young…

;- )

http://www.rabobank.co.nz/Research/Documents/Reports/Report_Dairy-IN_NZ-Sep2014.pdf

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than…

I guess if Miss Fisher had happened upon one of these the magazine would have already been emptied.

Could that also have been a reluctance to flood an already saturated market?:

This fully functional AK is one of a small number brought back to NZ by the NZ Army.Solid steel lower receiver with 1966 manufacture…

But the election WAS hijacked by a millionaire criminal – if you accept that back in the day JK particiapated in the biggest ever currency raid on the New Zealand Dollar (wiping the odd $billion of the value of NZ companies), that…

And, of course, Fast Food Nation.

Thanks Ben, interesting background to a weird episode. I remember spotting the Twin Flags branded butter at Foodtown Grey Lynn and thinking 'How stupid do they…

I had a bit of a look around and found a Q&A that the American government agency which sold the butter produced at the time, as you could imagine a lot of people in the US were highly annoyed at what was happening!…

+1 I second that Russel

Damn, that's a shame. I've found what you have to say in this really useful. Let me know if you reconsider.

I'd love to see the guest post by Farmer Green that Russell requested.

If you're interested, the excellent documentary "Food, Inc." is on youtube. Makes me very grateful that most of our meat isn't produced like that.

I remember in my first year in Beijing some American friends gave me this weird lurid radioactive orange coloured stuff and tried to claim is was cheddar cheese.…

They tried adulterating it with local product.

They both owe us.

Fixed it for you

Tatua, the small Waikato-based dairy co-operative, did well over the 2014/15 dairy season while its far bigger competitor, Fonterra, did not. The reason – powder.

Not even close to that. In 2010 it was 53% Natural Gas, 14% from all renewables.

Server farms would provide an ideal replacement for the smelter when it closes.

We've discussed this before on the site. From…

" We have a lot of headwinds blowing in our direction now with China slowing dramatically (take whatever their official reports say, haircut the positives by 50% and…

a whey with the theories...
on the Demand side
is anyone working to weaponise milk?

Or , the perfect hedge against a prolonged period of financial…

Just my opinion , but from a certain perspective , we are way past that point.
Perversely , if we were thinking about added-value dairy , as Australia is currently, we would conclude that we don't produce enough milk in…

http://www.rabobank.co.nz/Research/Documents/Reports/Rabobank_Global-Dairy-Qly_Sep-2014.pdf

Not so much in Mandarin – qíyì, which for those not acquainted with pinyin sounds more like chee – ee than kiwi. It looks like it likely does sound like kiwi in Cantonese, though, and many a foreign loanword entered "Chinese"* through Hong Kong and…

I suspect…

Oh...

I'm convinced at some stage that Labour is going to wake up to the great opportunity in NZ left parliamentary politics – forming a coalition with the Maori Party and leaving the Maori seats to them, and…

Fonterra Co-operative Group [NZX: FCG] may establish an Equity Partners' Fund that would source capital from investors for farmers in New Zealand and Australia.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/fonterra-considers-equity-fund-part-farms-source-launch-bd-163155

Ha! Thanks for looking :)

I did read something about Holsteins imported from NZ once a couple of years back – maybe in one of the links I posted earlier. But there's not much dairy farming out my in laws' way. Grapes and apples are big out there. There's a dairy "operation" of…

Yeah, no, sorry. I even had a flick through zdic, but couldn't find anything.

My experience (as a flight-veteran…

Please tell me that is because a regular peach looks like a 'moon'.

In fact, I'd say (with the exception of those born into riches and privilege through family…

Could we teach him about linking so there is back up to what he is saying. It is interesting but I'd like some evidence too.
Scratch that. he knows how.

What you you think about summing all this up into a guest post for us, FG?

OPINION: Gen Y's legacy – the age of entitlement
Jacqueline Rowarth | WEEKEND REVIEW |

"The more one has, the more one wants. Apparently, anyway.…

There are micro dairy companies in N.Z. achieving $4 gross/litre.

If this becomes news , then I can stop banging on about it , and head back down the back-paddock,…

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/rural/255708/fonterra-poor-at-value-adding-report

Sounds like hospo. Yep, and National are going to be weakening the laws even more this term apparently.

Create a sustainable dairy industry.
Somewhat glib answer , I know, but what I mean is that we have to re-design the industry so as to rebuild the stores of capital . . . economic , environmental and social.
Sell the finest cultured dairy products…

"Are we bringing in FIlipinos to work in our dairy industry? "

Oh yes , young NZers are frequently horrified by what they encounter , and have low tolerance of labour exploitation.

Wow. Ok, that is something I truly had no idea was happening. What…

That might be too harsh. The effect of collectivism is not insignificant.
If everyone is doing it , you would have to be something of a renegade to be different.
Shetlander /Irish ancestry can be facilitative . . . :-)

-dictates that the milk in that buttermilk lake had the same value as fresh milk in the middle of winter, when factories were lying idle , or on the shoulders of the season when efficiency was dropping owing to lack of throughput.

"too many cows on the soil " yep and too much bought-in nitrogen (as feed and fertiliser) to support them.
Consequently more effluent than the land area can sequester. Plus…

http://www.realestate.co.nz/2071634

"Through-put driven", so this means that Fonterra is focussed on the volumes of milk it receives from farmers?

"It should be obvious that the way the bulk of the NZ dairy industry, i.e.…

Oooo-er

Better yet if they can powder it, perhaps it could be reduced further,…

Not a worry mate :-)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/10542293/Fonterra-eyes-better-peak-milk-flow-control

Thank you. Lack of ambition and nous, then. Like so many other parts of our business and civic sectors.

Further comment at NBR . (I've replaced a few pronouns with nouns to make the meaning clearer.)

#8 by Farmer Brown
"intelligent, effective…

No, it's a compact city like most others around the world. Many people and businesses prefer to be close to facilities they value, not in some quaint seaside village. Plenty of those for people who're keen on them – but good luck finding…

Part of the reason is here (comment at NBR) :-

Fonterra is a very well run company , which responds rationally to the conditions in which it operates.
Those conditions amount to a protected environment.

The two key components of that protected environment…

Well, that's interesting. Kiwifruit is usually either 猕猴桃/míhóutáo or 奇异果/qíyìguǒ in modern Chinese, but I check here, and among some older names is 阳桃/yángtáo – "sun peach". Thanks, Ian!

I'm glad Alfie's found some info about it. Here's some of what I've seen:

one
two
three

Yet we're exporting dried powder. How come?

Shitting me. How stupid are we.

About 15 billion litres / annum . . . a drop in the bucket on the world stage. We only have 4 million cows.
Last time I looked there were about 20 million cows in India.

ETA : 45…

China has also been importing NZ dairy cows specifically to build up its own herds. Apparently native Chinese cows don't produce enough…

We only have one world-scale city and that's how it will stay. Boosting high-value sectors in other regions (such as Welli's film and IT busineses) is important but not enough to…

While I'm not a farmer I live in a rural area and get a few farming tabloids delivered weekly. The latest issue of Southern Rural Life has a two page spread on Fonterra's Chinese farming operations. The photos show a massive hi-tech stall operation. But…

. . . local body rates in Auckland rise to a level sufficient to provide that every waterbody/waterway is swimmable , and the only discharge to water from Auckland is . . . water.

That would be fair wouldn't it?

It will just keep pulling people until a strategy is worked out for the civic boosting of other cities. National…

http://www.fedfarm.org.nz/publications/opinion-editorials/article.asp?id=1847#.VCT5kucWE7A

" . . . we can become the undisputed world leader in exported cheese, yoghurt etc.. . . these are the products that deliver the greatest premiums and for which a growing middle class is ever…

There will be a few with cost of sales below $4; they will be the ones with less than one cow /acre; no nitrogen fertiliser used ; no "dairy support" purchased; no irrigation; and likely to be family- operated.
Of…

I'm told by a former farmer that a good farmer pays down debt in the good times so as…

Can we then lay some of the modern 'Obesity Problem'
at Big Dairy's door, as well?

But wait!
"winter price is much higher than the spring price."

What…

And what if Jesse Colombo is proven right and the housing bubble pops? Cunliffe would have dodged a poisoned…

More fool you for reading a gossip column then, chap. Still, I'm sure Ms. Glucina will be flattered to hear her fatuous burblings on the…

Slater = Collins = Glucina ...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11330147

They. Never. Stop.

Could you come up with a source, Jack, because I think you've just run out of sharks to jump. Not least because this week, the handful of mentions I've seen of…

One of the articles linked to earlier said that farm operating costs alone…

Why would newspapers worry about the ratings of Television stations? They have no reason to comment so colourfully apart from self-interest.

Slagging off a…

Not to mention that with the NZD looking a bit shakier and Chinese…

One of the trading banks has published a figure of $4 , based on the current GDT auction prices.

However, bad times regardless.

Suprise, surprise. During Fonterra's DCD and botulism scandals the Chinese media pointed out just how big a share of China's imported milk comes from NZ, and how big Fonterra is, and Sanlu...

All the comments to that article are very interesting.

Comment at NBR. Note that a $5.30 payout requires a 30% lift in prices.

"A 30% rebound in commodity prices over the current season and the next season is not going to happen.
Milk supply has increased worldwide.

China has negotiated supply agreements directly with European suppliers.

Tariffs…

Server farms would provide an ideal replacement for the smelter when it closes. Mind you, if this government stays true to form they might be inclined to offer all that cheap,…

Thanks, I didn't know that. What I have noticed is that from well before the quakes cross town mail in Chch could take that long.

especially in a year when the biggest election issue was corruption on the part of the opposing party – I think that Cunliffe should have abandoned that campaign and gone for the jugular when Dirty Politics came out, instead the biggest election story just…

Clark, along with other young Labour figures, worked in Anderton's Auckland dairy in her student holidays. These people were nothing if not effective networkers. What seemed…

Suitability is a cloth run thing...

Hey, we’re still doing it :-)

To be fair, not quite what he was arguing there. I agree with him that for non-tribal voters, policy doesn't mean a great deal if (fairly or not) the…

(changes in the speed of light would also help)

Hell electrify the South Island rail system,
or maybe a partnership with the Dairy industries,
run…

:- )

Same boat, lets start mutiny mutterings...…

Edit: Simon G has already said the words I was going to write.

Helen Clark's symbolic peace-making with Jim Anderton was a big step in…

As Obama was on record saying, why choose and/or when you can have both/and?

In many ways we did, although the history of the first Labour Government shows that they were far from monolithic in their commitment to social justice. As Bruce Jesson’s The Fletcher Challenge reveals, it wasn’t only the Government who trained the workforce…

Heh. I remember the 1981 election night TV coverage, where an excited young suit with an unfortunately squeaky voice declared he’d voted for “Mister Muldoon” because he’d “got the deficit down”. Three years later the election…

This +…

The unemployed were expected to work. Having a family exempted you to some degree from being directed…

The hero to zero trajectory can be remarkably short. A 2011 Facebook fan page for Chch Mayor Bob Parker reached North Korean levels of adulation – 13000+ likes – before suddenly imploding. I rather wish it had been somehow preserved as an…

But yes, we need a nice smiley jokey nice faced Labour leader that young…

Thanks. Interesting times.

This won’t have changed much:-

http://agrihq.co.nz/article/no-bonanza-to-debt-laden-farmers

This is more recent:-

https://agrihq.co.nz/article/milk-price-below-6.50-will-hurt?p=119

Apparently they need to stop listening to themselves and listen to the people, yet many of their policies tested very well in polling with the very same people.…

"It takes a bit of time for it to flow through, if you like, but at $5.20 at the…

To…

except bankers, naturally

ETA ; which of course…

But that would be VERY…

How many farms are not viable businesses at that payout level, given their indebtedness? Wasn't it something like 20% at $6?

:- )

Not necessarily. The smelter is a bit like NZ's equivalent of Holden – hasn't been profitable in years, has become a net recipient of taxpayer dosh, overseas head office isn't interesting in modernising it, and the global market is over-supplied.