New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
RURAL CONTRACTORS are being reminded to make sure their machinery is cleaned between jobs to ensure that plant pests and weeds are not spread around on dirty gear.
RURAL WOMEN NEW ZEALAND is excited to play a key role in organising a programme of events to celebrate the UN International Year of Family Farming in 2014.
THE 46th SEASON of the ANZ Young Farmer Contest officially got underway last Friday, October 4 at the Commodore Hotel in Christchurch.
NICK DROMGOOL, acting chief executive of New Zealand's National Fieldays – the Southern Hemisphere's largest agricultural show - visited Ireland's Ploughing Championships this week.
THE MEAT INDUSTRY Excellence (MIE) group has welcomed the appointment of James Parsons as the chair-elect of Beef & Lamb NZ (B&L) but says he will have "his work cut out".
THE HUNT IS ON for New Zealand's top Farmax rural consultants in the company's inaugural Consultant of the Year Awards.
THERE ARE NEARLY 30 million less hungry people in the world in 2013, compared to last year, says FAO director-general Jose Graziano da Silva.
A SOUTH WAIRARAPA organic dairy farm will make farming history when it becomes the first in the North Island to release dung beetles into the environment to help improve soil health and pasture productivity.
A GOOD WINTER and a favourable weather outlook for spring have boosted confidence across the New Zealand beef industry, particularly after the drought, says Rabobank.
THE DEADLOCK, which has sections of the US Government shutting down, should serve as a warning to New Zealand farmers to run conservative farm budgets.
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Fonterra has appointed Pascal De Petrini as managing director of its Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) business unit.
MOBILE AND broadband options just got better for residents and visitors to the Te Kowhai West area of Hamilton, as Vodafone lights up its newly built cell site under the Government's Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI).
MINISTER FOR Primary Industries Nathan Guy is welcoming a proposal to bring in compulsory screening of palm kernel expeller (PKE) imported into New Zealand.
CANTERBURY MILK nutrition company Synlait Milk is supportive of the investment by AgResearch in its campus infrastructure.
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