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Prime Minister John Key says India knows it needs a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand, though an FTA is always “challenging” for the agricultural sector of any country we negotiate with.
Local Westpac bank staff could find themselves up a creek near you if their chief executive David McLean has his way.
Westpac head David McLean says New Zealand is not capturing enough of the value chain with its dairy exports.
PALMERSTON NORTH student Braydon Schroder is the latest winner of the Hugh Williams Ravensdown Memorial University Scholarship.
Staff can get cows to milking within five minutes in Southland’s chilly winter rather than slog round in a wet swede paddock.
Diversity and its effects on all areas of business including dairy and agri-business was highlighted by speakers at the conference.
Robotic milking is coming of age in New Zealand and interest has surged in the last six months, DeLaval’s Grant Vickers says.
Westland Milk Products is delighted that West Coast dairy farming stalwart Katie Milne has won the 2015 Dairy Woman of the Year Award.
The Dairy Woman of the Year 2015, Katie Milne, was feeling “pretty surreal” the morning after taking the title at the Dairy Women’s Network conference in Invercargill last week.
Farmers need to take seriously the transportation of stock and be fully acquainted with the various animal welfare rules on this.
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Pam has saved the season on many North Island dairy farms but the cyclone’s soak failed to reach the south where some areas are still desperately dry, despite dribs and drabs of rain in recent weeks.
The opposition claims that the Ministry for Primary Industries has ‘dumbed down’ the expertise needed to handle major food safety issues such as the recent 1080 threat.
There is a limit to what farmers can do to improve security on their farms, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard.
The Ministry of Primary Industries’ own tests and controls of raw milk safety on farms overlay those of the dairy companies, but the ministry works also with the companies.
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