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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
OPINION: Federated Farmers posted a photo on X (formerly Twitter) last week of a meeting between its board members and the new ministerial team at the Ministry for Primary Industries.
OPINION: If you are an investor in listed Canterbury milk processor, Synlait then you may have a reason to be worried.
OPINION: Will departing Greens coleader James Shaw set up a new party?
Conditions are looking better than forecast for the country’s dairy farmers.
A leading farm accountant and consultant believes the dairy industry has turned a corner as the rural sector navigates a downturn.
Tributes from across the political divide flowed last week for James Shaw, the Green Party co-leader who has called time on his nine year political career.
It could be that buyers are hunting out the right farm to purchase as farm sales drop for the three months ended December 2023. That’s according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ).
The El Nino weather pattern is likely to kick in during the last few weeks of February.
Waimea Irrigators chairman Murray King has welcomed the effective completion of a major dam, which is expected to give irrigators and other users on the Waimea Plains reliability of supply for decades to come.
LIC chair Corrigan Sowman believes the company is well placed to support farmers to meet Fonterra’s scope three emissions target.
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Taking over the chairmanship of LIC feels like a generational responsibility for Tākaka farmer Corrigan Sowman.
Last week's Parliament sitting saw another first – a few Government MPs wearing gumboots in the House during Question Time.
The man largely responsible for setting up Miraka, the country’s first Māori dairy company, is stepping down.
New Northland MP Grant McCallum is calling for cross Parliament consensus on long-term issues like water quality.
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