New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
THE SUBARU Legacy X could be seen as the answer to a question nobody was asking: a high-riding all-wheel-drive (AWD) sedan.
WE SHOULD give thanks for those fearless souls who still believe they can save the strong-wool industry. As those who have gone before have found, the path to this salvation can be unforgiving.
FARMERS IN the central North Island, especially around Taihape, are setting up a network to monitor the flights of porina moths.
RYEGRASS IS far from the only species of weed at risk of developing resistance to glyphosate, say Australian researchers, in the wake of New Zealand confirming its first case of resistance to the broadspectrum and widely used herbicide.
FONTERRA IS still looking for Government and other support for its national Milk for Schools programme.
Wools of New Zealand has extended the deadline for its share offer to wool growers to 5pm, February 25 2013 to ensure growers have been given as much time as possible to consider and connect to the offer.
Don't tell Rudolph, but it's velvet and antler competition time in New Zealand, with national and many regional competitions completed in recent weeks.
THE GLOBAL economic crisis is expected to knock $1.7 billion off the value of New Zealand's primary exports this season.
Fonterra shareholders have voted overwhelming in favour of a resolution to lock in protections around the size of the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund and the integrity of the Farmgate Milk Price.
Fonterra has thrown cold water on reports that it plans to build a $100 million state-of-the-art building in Auckland.
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The Fonterra Shareholders Council admits that it its communication strategy during the TAF process was not up to scratch.
EXPECT TO see more soft feed wheats from European, notably UK, breeding programmes, growers at PGW's agronomy group field day last week heard.
TWO YEARS ago the Te Aroha, Waikato, meat processing plant burned down, a major tragedy for a small town in a productive farming area.
It has been another big and busy year for the agribusiness sector. Since this is the last newspaper for the 2012, Rural News' editorial team has done a quick review of the year and come up with its high and lowlights...
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