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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
THE SMILING corporate face of Mazda on the front of a ute makes a bold statement.
DairyNZ is piloting a new approach in the Manawatu and South Waikato to help farmers achieve their cow condition targets by calving.
Following Federated Farmers Dairy Council last week, the federation's dairy executive and Fonterra board are to meet.
It came down to the wire in Greymouth at the Tasman Regional Final of The National Bank Young Farmer Contest on Saturday (February 18).
Federated Farmers is opposing the Western Bay of Plenty District Council's moves to create buffer zones of up to 32m either side of electricity transmission lines.
Fifty-three new orchards were reported as infected with Psa –V in the past week, a big jump from just five new infections for the week before.
Horticulture New Zealand wants to see stronger biosecurity protection come out of this week's Ministerial announcement of an investigation into how border protection agencies can work together.
DairyNZ has welcomed Parliament's adoption of the National Animal Identification and Tracing Bill (NAIT) as a milestone in bringing animal traceability for the dairy industry to reality.
Swedes who recently visited an award-winning Waikato farm were impressed by our farming, says the New Zealand Farm Environment (NZFE) Trust.
THE NEW Zealand dollar's strength is throwing a dampener on heady days for beef.
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THE SEASON has gone haywire as far as rural contractors are concerned.
BUSINESS CAN'T get much tougher for Nelson apple growers, and if it does, many of the older ones will quit rather than burn their equity.
CROP VARIETY testing systems the world over are inherently misleading and New Zealand's are no exception, says a leading wheat breeder.
THE BEEF industry is hoping to make new inroads into the tricky but potentially huge halal market this year including regaining some of its former $31 million trade to Malaysia.
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