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FORMER FONTERRA director Greg Gent has been elected to the board of Southern Cross Medical Care Society, New Zealand’s largest health insurer with around 830,000 members.
Site applications for 2012 New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays are 13% ahead of last year and already 88% of sites are sold, say organisers.
CONCERNS OVER Europe’s economy has hit wool consumer and processor confidence, making many buyers stand out of the market, says Wool Services International.
WITH ELEVEN days still to go until entries close, the 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards have already attracted over 400 applicants.
THREE MORE Ballance Agri-Nutrients' sites – Awarua, Whangarei, and Mount Maunganui – have gained ISO14001 certification recognising effective environmental management systems capable of continuous improvement.
SOIL & HEALTH Association of New Zealand spokesperson Steffan Browning has become an MP by virtue of being 10th on the Green Party list.
JOHN HARTNELL, chairman of Federated Farmers Bees and a former Feds national board member, is a semi-finalist in the 2012 Kiwibank Local Heroes Award, recognising his work as "generalissimo" of the Farmy Army in the wake of Christchurch's February and June earthquakes.
ABOUT 3500 Waikato farmers will soon require resource consent to take extra water for dairy shed use.
AS Greenpeace launches its annual attack on dairying's use of palm kernel, drought is looming over key agricultural areas, threatening to put pressure on feed availability.
RURAL RETAILER Farmlands says it has taken another step in its quest to become the North Island's dominant player.
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THE DAIRY industry is funding a scoping study into biological farming systems.
A MOVE by Australian beef producers to wind up the industry's umbrella body, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), has failed.
THE DAYS of selling New Zealand products based solely as 'clean and green' are gone, says Federated Farmers vice president William Rolleston.
THE PROPOSED merger between kiwifruit companies Satara and Seeka will be voted on by Satara shareholders this week.
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