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Despite a softening in the NZ dollar in recent days, export beef slaughter prices are still being hammered at the expense of the exchange rate.
The new Primary Industry Training Organisation will be officially opened tonight (October 10).
Farmers wanting information about planting and managing trees in the working landscape will soon be able to access a new online – and free – database.
Federated Farmers believes quantitative easing now would be incredibly bad for New Zealand.
Westpac economists are forecasting global dairy and beef prices to rise on the back of drought in the US and elsewhere.
All finalists this year in the Lincoln University Foundation's annual competition are from the central South Island.
Now is the time to take other steps to protect fruit crops from Northland to Waikato favoured by the unwanted Aussie insect invader the guava moth, biosecurity experts say.
Agricultural contractors are reminded they must leave a buffer of at least 2m between waterways and areas cultivated for growing maize.
Winners of the Beef + Lamb NZ Livestock Farm Award, Okahu farmers John and Lurline Blackwell and their son Peter were not in it for the glory.
The North Island lamb kill is beginning to lift off seasonal lows and this will begin to happen in the South Island as well over the coming weeks.
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Wool prices were firm to slightly easier overall at the North Island wool sale this week. The NZ Wool Services International Coarse Crossbred market indicator was down 4c to $3.74/kg and the Fine Crossbred market indicator eased by 6c to $4.47/kg.
Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) funding was announced today to pay for half of a $14 million research programme to deliver better seeds and plant species for farmers.
A preferred bidder for Solid Energy’s Biodiesel New Zealand business has been announced.
New Zealand farmers are lining up to use 'once-in-a-lifetime' bull Howies Checkpoint in the upcoming dairy mating season.
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